151105

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151104 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151104_4.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

Trans-Pacific Partnership (#TPP) text finally available - http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-International-Law/01-Treaties-for-which-NZ-is-Depositary/0-Trans-Pacific-Partnership.php spread the word; everyone get reading and digging

Snooper’s Charter: Web browsing history stored for a year, no bans on encryption - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/snoopers-charter-web-browsing-history-stored-for-a-year-no-bans-on-encryption/ mass surveillance legalised

Despite assurances to contrary, intellectual property covered asset for #TPP #ISDS mechanism - http://keionline.org/node/2358 will be a disaster

Why US Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market - http://inthesetimes.com/article/18504/epa_government_scientists_and_chemical_industry_links_influence_regulations why we must defend Precautionary Principle against #TTIP

Sierra Club: #TPP Text is “Concrete Evidence” of Toxic Deal - http://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2015/11/sierra-club-tpp-text-concrete-evidence-toxic-deal & they can prove it...

Japan, five #TPP partners agree to review terms after seven years - http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/05/business/japan-five-tpp-partners-agree-review-terms-seven-years/ aka "living agreement"

#TPP Text Analysis: The TPP Would Increase Risks to Our Air, Water, and Climate - https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/INITIAL%20ANALYSIS%20-%20ENVIRO%20IMPLICATIONS%20TPP.pdf important stuff: pl. circulate

MI5 carried out secret mass #surveillance for a decade; GCHQ still denies doing the same - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/mi5-carried-out-secret-mass-surveillance-for-a-decade-gchq-still-denies-doing-the-same/ "Turing did it, too..."

These internet surveillance powers risk undermining the judiciary - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/04/internet-surveillance-judiciary-theresa-may-web-browsing interesting, important point #IPBill

Surveillance bill triggers alarm over sweeping powers for spies - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/broad-support-gives-way-to-alarm-over-mays-surveillance-bill beyond May's marketing, reality is ugly #IPBill

#TPP Text Analysis: Environment Chapter Fails to Protect Environment - https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/TPPanalysis.pdf detailed analysis of the Great TPP Betrayal

hardworking families of the AFL-CIO will join with our allies to defeat the #TPP = http://www.aflcio.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/AFL-CIO-on-Administration-Releasing-Text-of-TPP-Deal

Ten Years After the Defeat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) - http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/173379 7 here comes #TPP

Secret #TPP Text Unveiled: It’s Worse than We Thought - https://www.citizen.org/documents/analysis-tpp-text-november-2015.pdf initial 16-page analysis

#TPP text: Limits on Food Safety and #ISDS Expanded, Rollback of Bush-Era Medicine Access and Environmental Terms - http://commons.commondreams.org/t/secret-tpp-text-unveiled-it-s-worse-than-we-thought-with-limits-on-food-safety-and-controversial-investor-state-system-expanded-rollback-of-bush-era-medicine-access-and-environmental-terms/15043

#TPP on registration of drugs, bans requirements to disclose or consider certain financial or pricing data - http://keionline.org/node/2362

Only 'tiny handful' of ministers knew of mass surveillance, Clegg reveals - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/05/nick-clegg-cabinet-mass-surveillance-british-spying the UK is clearly no longer a democracy

Think Tank Who Proposed #SOPA Now Argues That US Should Encourage Countries To Censor The Pirate Bay - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151104/10200932719/think-tank-who-proposed-sopa-now-argues-that-us-should-encourage-countries-to-censor-pirate-bay.shtml

CPATH: #TPP Caves to the Tobacco Industry, Threatens Public Health - http://www.cpath.org/ good analysis why tobacco "carve-out" useless

RT @Maybarduk:"Our intern Yujiao Tsai counted up all the chapters, annexes, NCMs, etc. She reports that the #TPP is 6,194 pages long."

#TPP Trade Agreement Slammed For Eroding Online Rights - http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/05/tpp-vs-privacy/ & much else

As US Promotes #TPP As A Way To Improve Labor Standards, Guatemala Shows Failed Promises Of Previous Trade Deals - http://www.ibtimes.com/us-promotes-tpp-way-improve-labor-standards-guatemala-shows-failed-promises-previous-2171795

We made President Obama’s big #TPP trade deal searchable - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/05/we-made-president-obamas-big-tpp-trade-deal-searchable/?postshare=5371446749920151 great work - well done,@washingtonpost. pl. pass on

Statement by MSF on the Official Release of the Full Text of #TPP - http://msfaccess.org/www.msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/statement-msf-release-full-text-tpp# "MSF remains gravely concerned"

Canada to review Pacific trade pact, seek public input: minister - http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/05/trade-tpp-canada-politics-idUSL1N1302SJ20151105 great: sharpen your digital pencils... #TPP

#TPP Text Reveals Risk for Consumer Privacy Reform - https://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=5723 #TPP is a ratchet: less public interest, more corporate power