151228

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151227 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/12/151227.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

Flood defences need complete rethink, says Environment Agency - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/28/uk-floods-complete-rethink-thousands-evacuated-north-england people are waking up; will UK government do so too?

Palmyra arch that survived Isis to be replicated in London and New York - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/28/palmyra-temple-bel-arch-survived-isis-syria-london-new-york nice

Flood defences row: UK paying price for Cameron's broken promises - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/28/flood-defences-row-uk-paying-price-david-cameron-tories-broken-promises be rather poetic if #climatechange took him down

#Climatechange: #Bolivia's second largest lake dries up, in pictures - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/earth/12058237/Climate-change-Bolivias-second-largest-lake-dries-up-in-pictures.html?frame=3530426 dramatic images (v @olewin)

Law to curb power of top court 'is end of democracy in #Poland' - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/28/poland-law-curb-power-top-court-end-democracy-andrzej-duda sad to see - and worrying...

#China Using US #Encryption Fight To Defend Its New Encryption Backdoor Mandate - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151223/15204133164/china-using-us-encryption-fight-to-defend-new-encryption-backdoor-mandate.shtml #awkward

Harvard Law Review Freaks Out, Sends Threat Over Public Domain Citation Guide - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151224/23582933173/harvard-law-review-freaks-out-sends-christmas-eve-threat-over-public-domain-citation-guide.shtml go home HLR, you're ridiculous

#Facebook's Zuckerberg: If You Oppose Our International Power Grab, You're An Enemy Of The Poor - https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20151228/05480433177/facebooks-zuckerberg-if-you-oppose-our-international-power-grab-youre-enemy-poor.shtml nice takedown...

EU Agriculture would be gross losers in #TTIP Agreement - Anderson MEP - http://www.farminglife.com/news/farming-news/eu-agriculture-would-be-gross-losers-in-ttip-agreement-anderson-mep-1-7131543 & that's according to US gov's own figures

Protecting Trade Secrets: Impact of Trade Secret Theft on US Competitiveness & Solutions to Remedy this Harm - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2704407

NGOs: #Israel plant Gesetz gegen regierungskritische Organisationen - http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/israel-kabinett-plant-gesetz-gegen-regierungskritische-ngos-a-1069553.html no comment necessary...

Activists Increasingly Face Dirty Tricks by Food Industry - http://www.alternet.org/food/activists-increasingly-face-dirty-tricks-food-industry which means, of course, they are desperate & losing

32C3: Die Schweiz will sich eine „Mini-NSA“ schaffen - https://netzpolitik.org/2015/32c3-die-schweiz-will-sich-eine-mini-nsa-schaffen/ #ch

BT loses its outsourcing legal case against Cornwall Council - http://ukcampaign4change.com/2015/12/21/bt-loses-its-outsourcing-legal-case-against-cornwall-council/ couldn't happen to nicer ex-monopoly...

Origins of the Irish down to mass migration, ancient DNA confirms - http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/28/origins-of-the-irish-down-to-mass-migration-ancient-dna-confirms fascinating stuff #genomics

Senator Richard Burr: Confused And Wrong On Encryption - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151224/22431133172/senator-richard-burr-confused-wrong-encryption.shtml #crypto is not a problem