150205

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150204 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.co.il/2015/02/150204.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

#Romania: Send Tania, Zoo Elephant, to Sanctuary - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/880/651/ "barren cell standing on concrete, often in her own urine & feces"

Jury Wastes No Time In Finding Ross Ulbricht Guilty On All Counts - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150204/14423529912/jury-wastes-no-time-finding-ross-ulbricht-guilty-all-counts.shtml

Powerful lobby attacks food safety at Brussels trade talks - http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2015-02-powerful-lobby-attacks-food-safety-at-brussels-trade-talks how standards will be lowered under #TTIP

#TTIP threatens food safety - http://www.foeeurope.org/EU-US-trade-deal-threatens-food-safety-030215 "new transatlantic body to filter all future food safety and animal welfare rules"

"EU & US could be bound by international standards "even where clear evidence suggests a threat to public health." - http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2741624/ttip_is_a_lethal_attack_on_food_safety_and_animal_welfare.html

British Army To Create 1500-Strong Social Media Propaganda Force - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150204/07545529907/british-army-to-create-1500-strong-social-media-propaganda-force.shtml seems rather a lot of people...

NGOs protest EU-US trade deal with a Trojan horse - http://www.euractiv.com/video/ngos-protest-eu-us-trade-deal-trojan-horse-311848 nice, short video of event #TTIP

Petitioners’ fears over EU-US trade deal well-grounded - http://www.bilaterals.org/?petitioners-fears-over-eu-us-trade "#TTIP much easier to sell if #ISDS no longer part of it"

Jim Hightower: Global Trade Deal Is a 'Corporate Coup d'Etat' - http://www.alternet.org/economy/jim-hightower-global-trade-deal-corporate-coup-detat they all are... #TPP #TTIP #TISA

EU urged to move fast to ratify FTA with #Singapore - http://www.bilaterals.org/?eu-urged-to-move-fast-to-ratify no: #ISDS must be removed before any ratification

An Unequal Treaty: TTIP and Inequality in Europe - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_JwAVpWmqN4MkVTbjQ1NFlaOVU/view good analysis of neglected aspect of #TTIP's many flaws

report: US-Japan trade deficit shows need for currency provisions in #TPP - http://thehill.com/policy/finance/231736-us-japan-trade-deficit-signal-of-need-for-currency-provisions-in-tpp but no sign yet of including it

Western Spy Agencies Secretly Rely on Hackers for Intel and Expertise - https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/04/demonize-prosecute-hackers-nsa-gchq-rely-intel-expertise/ are you on GCHQ's #LOVELYHORSE list of cool?

Yes, Major Record Labels Are Keeping Nearly All The Money They Get From #Spotify, Rather Than Giving It To Artists - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150204/07310329906/yes-major-record-labels-are-keeping-nearly-all-money-they-get-spotify-rather-than-giving-it-to-artists.shtml

Dept. of Justice Blesses IEEE Rules on Injunctions and Reasonability - http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20150204115737443 baby steps towards RF licensing #standards

EU Ambassador at 2nd EU-U.S. Trade Conference - http://useu.usmission.gov/2015-02-05_gardner_trade_conference.html "drawing of red lines is counterproductive" = "we will ignore them"

note use of “The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the U.S. and Europe.” - takes no account of which regs important

"Millions of European visitors to the United States are happy to eat our food" - yes, because it's just for 2 weeks, not for a lifetime

Intelligence Community's Lawyer's Desire For Unicorns, Leprechauns & Golden Keys That Don't Undermine Encryption - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150204/17480229914/intelligence-communitys-top-lawyer-endorses-desire-unicorns-leprechauns-golden-keys-that-dont-undermine-encryption.shtml

#TPP - The Latest in a Broken Record of Broken Promises - http://files.cwa-union.org/national/issues/PolicyIssues/Trade/TPP_Fact_Sheets_11_19_and_on/broken-promises-feb-5.pdf fact after fact after fact on past trade agreement failures

World's biggest sovereign wealth fund dumps dozens of #coal companies - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/05/worlds-biggest-sovereign-wealth-fund-dumps-dozens-of-coal-companies which mug investors left holding rubbish?

Conservationists are worried about the waste from cruise ships in Alaska - http://mashable.com/2015/02/05/cruise-wastewater-alaska/ besmirching the very thing they feed off

Meet – and hear – the world's first bilingual chimps - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26922-meet--and-hear--the-worlds-first-bilingual-chimps.html pretty big if confirmed

Stop TISA the secret trade agreement - https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_tisa_en_eu_sas/ @Avaaz discovers #TISA

The health impact of trade and investment agreements - https://www.uio.no/english/research/interfaculty-research-areas/globalgov/globalgov-for-health/calls-for-evidence/2015/trade-and-investments.html "invites submissions of evidence on the topic" #TPP #TTIP

EFF Launches Awards Program For Most Outrageous Failures In #FOIA Responses - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150204/04154629902/eff-launches-awards-program-most-outrageous-failures-foia-responses.shtml should be fun