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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 141015 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.fi/2014/10/141015.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Booker prize winner  'ashamed to be Australian' over environmental policies - http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/15/man-booker-prize-winner-richard-flanagan-ashamed-to-be-an-australian Abbott is a global embarrassment

Mr Justice Arnold calls for a holistic review of #copyright - http://the1709blog.blogspot.fi/2014/10/arnold-j-calls-for-holistic-review-of.html

Judges Want To Make Life Harder On Patent Trolls: Want Them To Actually Have To Explain What Infringement Happened - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141013/17160028814/judges-want-to-make-life-harder-patent-trolls-want-them-to-actually-have-to-explain-what-infringement-happened.shtml

important: EU-Singapore investment talks concluded, says EU Trade Chief -  http://www.bilaterals.org/?eu-singapore-investment-talks has #ISDS, which must come out

Kiwis need Open Access to publicly funded research - http://creativecommons.org.nz/2014/10/kiwis-need-open-access-to-publicly-funded-research/ they paid for it, let them read it #oa

Help save one of the most beautiful songbirds - the Nightingale - from extinction - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/910/676/797/

Swedish Company Uses Corporate Sovereignty Clause To Demand 4.7 Billion Euros From German Public - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141015/08244228837/swedish-company-uses-corporate-sovereignty-clause-to-demand-47-billion-euros-german-public.shtml why #ISDS must go

Munich sticks with Free Software - https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141016-01.en.html so there #linux

Don’t panic, it’s only a secret trade deal - https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/frances-o%27grady/calm-down-dear-it%E2%80%99s-only-%E2%80%98trade-deal%E2%80%99 great commentary on #TTIP & #CETA: "First we have to deal with Canada"

Car Wars: The #Environmental Cost of #TTIP - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/martin-whitlock/ttip-environmental-cost_b_5992732.html superb analysis of how TTIP's numbers even worse than they seem

WikiLeaks Publishes #TPP Intellectual Property Chapter - https://www.citizen.org/tpp-ip-wikileaks huge: "would lead to preventable suffering and death"

#TPP  text on intellectual property provides details of pandering to drug companies & publishers - http://keionline.org/node/2108 great analysis

Rhino horn demand in Vietnam drops by more than 33% in one year - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/16/rhino-horn-demand-in-vietnam-drops-by-more-than-33-in-one-year a glimmer of hope; well done, #Vietnam

The knock-on effects of tumbling oil prices - http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/16/datablog-low-oil-prices-chill-producer-economies another reason we don't need #fracking

leak: Complications at Musgrove Park hospital in Taunton were ten times the number that might have been expected - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/16/leaked-report-cataract-surgery-revealed

Theresa May defends secrecy over intelligence services - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/16/theresa-may-secrecy-intelligence-services-spies her use of "haystack" metaphor shows she's clueless #gchq

Indonesia challenges Australian cigarette packaging laws - http://www.bilaterals.org/?indonesia-challenges-australian shameful

Deleting The Digital Divide One Computer at a Time - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/deleting-the-digital-divide-one-computer-at-a-time a worthy cause #linux

Event Report: #TTIP on the Defensive - http://www.atlantic-community.org/-/event-report-ttip-on-the-defensive actually, in deep, deep trouble... #ISDS #deregulation #standards

Citizenfour review – gripping #Snowden documentary offers portrait of power, paranoia and one remarkable man - http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/16/citizen-four-review-edward-snowden-documentary #nsa

Latest IP Chapter Of #TPP Agreement Leaked: Would Be A Disaster For Public Health - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141016/05300128842/latest-intellectual-property-chapter-tpp-agreement-leaked-would-be-disaster-public-health.shtml people would die as a result

BREAKING: Juncker to take #ISDS out of #TTIP - http://www.ttip2014.eu/blog-detail/blog/ISDS%20out%20Juncker.html big if confirmed...

FBI Director: Encryption Will Lead to a 'Very Dark Place' - http://mashable.com/2014/10/16/fbi-director-encryption-going-dark-speech/ his understanding of the issues, presumably...

#TPP leak "clearest evidence that we are no where a final agreement in this lengthy and complicated negotiation" - http://infojustice.org/archives/33422

FBI Director Continues His Attack On Technology, Privacy & Encryption - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141016/11531128849/fbi-director-continues-his-attack-technology-privacy-encryption.shtml "level playing field"??? just like copyright