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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150304 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2015/03/150304.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

European Governments Seeking To Water Down EU's Proposed #DataProtection Legislation - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150304/03124330205/european-governments-seeking-to-water-down-eus-proposed-data-protection-legislation.shtml disgraceful

Mapping the global battle to protect our planet - http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/mar/03/mapping-environmental-protest-justice-defending-land & that's what it is... (v @Cecile_Toubeau)#TTIP

stop #TTIP/TAFTA - Signing the call for action  - https://www.collectifstoptafta.org/agir/journee-d-action-transatlantique/article/signing-the-call-for-action #April18DoA

Industry lobbyists weakened Europe's air pollution rules, say Greenpeace - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/05/industry-lobbyists-weakened-europes-air-pollution-rules-say-greenpeace UK gov puts profit before people, again

#TTIP–EU Nexus and North Africa - http://rosalux-europa.info/events_en/World-social-forum-2015-TTIP/ Seminar 24-28 March 2015, Tunis (Tunesia) (v @andrea_licata)

Doubt over climate science is a product with an industry behind it - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2015/mar/05/doubt-over-climate-science-is-a-product-with-an-industry-behind-it?CMP=share_btn_tw good analysis

Everglades To Be Killed This October by Florida's Own Koch Brothers - http://www.alternet.org/environment/everglades-be-killed-october-floridas-own-koch-brothers sickening

Anti-Corruption Social Network In Russia Requires Numerous Personal Details To Join: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/09142830185/new-anti-corruption-social-network-russia-requires-numerous-personal-details-to-join-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.shtml

Ascent of Giants - https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2015/02/Ascent_of_Giants.pdf important analysis of why #NAFTA betrayed Canada, & why #CETA, #TPP, #TTIP will make things worse

#FTA: "April may be too close to the gravitational field of the 2016 elections, and the whole scheme could go down" - http://prospect.org/article/saving-obama-bad-trade-deal

#TPP + #TTIP "would thus yield all of about eight one-hundredths of one percent to U.S. GDP per year until 2025" - http://prospect.org/article/saving-obama-bad-trade-deal

"bona fide regulations to protect public welfare have been recast as illegal barriers to trade by the big corporations" #TTIP #TPP

EU Council proposals on protecting the open internet – Episode 1, the phantom neutrality - https://edri.org/eu-council-proposals-protecting-open-internet-episode-1-phantom-neutrality/ awful: we must fight this

"next release of OX Guard, with the new #PGP features, will be out this summer" -http://blog.open-xchange.com/2015/03/05/pgp/ #crypto #opensource

Wyden should side with Merkley, working families on trade agreement - http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/02/wyden_should_side_with_merkley.html pressure growing on #TPA: will he listen?

#FightFastTrack Twitterstorm for March 5 - http://teamsternation.blogspot.nl/2015/03/fightfasttrack-twitterstorm-for-march-5.html some suggestions here

Fourth plinth: politically provocative Gift Horse is unveiled in London - http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/05/fourth-plinth-provocative-artwork-gift-horse-hans-haacke-unveiled-in-london well done, Boris (did I really write that?)

Clapper: Attacks We Didn't Prevent In The Past Can't Be Prevented In The Future If Section 215 Is Allowed To Die - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/16581330187/clapper-attacks-we-didnt-prevent-past-cant-be-prevented-future-if-section-215-is-allowed-to-die.shtml

Free trade has restructured corporate sector, slowed growth, raised inequality, says economist - http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2015/03/03/free-trade-has-restructured-corporate-sector-slowed-growth-raised-inequality-says-economist/ #NAFTA bad, #TPP too

first #TTIP statement from Jamie Oliver on social media - https://instagram.com/p/z2x965q24V/ yes, anyone can join the campaign...

WordPress Wins $25,000 From DMCA Takedown Abuser - http://torrentfreak.com/wordpress-wins-25000-from-dmca-takedown-abuser-150305/ important precedent: more cases needed now, pl. (v @maira)

GCSB in mass collection of Pacific data: Ferguson - http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/267923/gcsb-in-mass-collection-of-pacific-data-ferguson not wittingly, of course (v @KimDotcom)#snowden #nz

The shocking truth about police corruption in Britain - http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9461322/the-shocking-truth-about-police-corruption-in-britain/ a growing problem. But they’re hunting whistleblowers instead

Why Even Justified Criticisms Of GNU Privacy Guard Miss The Point - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150226/07310430149/why-even-justified-criticisms-gnu-privacy-guard-miss-point.shtml we should be hugely grateful...

Breakdown in management-staff relations at the European Patent Office - http://ipkitten.blogspot.nl/2015/03/breakdown-in-management-staff-relations.html #EPO a complete & utter disaster; start again