Moody's Microblog
Daily Digest 160112 -
http://moodysmdd.blogspot.ie/2016/01/160112.html yesterday's
tweets as a single page
Obama expected to
push Congress to pass #TPP -
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/265622-obama-expected-to-push-congress-to-pass-tpp "faces
a tough fight in building support in Congress to pass deal"
To stop UK floods:
plant trees, and stop shooting beavers -
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/takeaction/244/962/454/ absurd
to do anything else
Time to toss out
toxic investment chapters from trade deals -
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/trade-society/time-toss-out-toxic-investment-chapters-trade-deals-320898 no
"reforms" - just bin #ISDS now
(v @Cecile_Toubeau)
EPA Science Advisors
Balk at Fracking Study -
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-07/the-u-s-epa-called-fracking-safe-now-its-scientists-disagree not
as safe as EPA claims
Employers may
monitor your personal Internet use at work, top European court rules
-
http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/01/employers-may-monitor-your-personal-internet-use-at-work-top-european-court-rules/ if
you have been warned not to
David Mundell,
Scotland secretary, comes out as gay -
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/13/conservative-david-mundell-scotland-minister-comes-out-gay "to
acknowledge in public as well as in private, who I am"
Floods: Protect
homes, not nature, Cameron orders officials -
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environment/floods-protect-homes-not-nature-cameron-orders-officials-1-7671984 idiot:
you protect homes by working *with* nature
Israel says Swedish
foreign minister is 'not welcome' in country -
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/13/israel-bars-swedish-foreign-minister-over-call-inquiry-palestinian-deaths also:
"hit out at the flogging of Raif Badawi"
Theresa May refuses
to say whether UK spies access medical data -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35300671 so
that's a "yes", then... #IPBill (v
@aral)
Hateful Eight
Pirated Leak Harms Film All The Way To Box Office Records -
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160108/13000733286/hateful-eight-pirated-leak-harms-film-all-way-to-box-office-records.shtml because
piracy often amounts to marketing
Settlement Reached
In Class Action Lawsuit Against Rightscorp For Robocalls -
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160112/22302333318/settlement-reached-class-action-lawsuit-against-rightscorp-robocalls.shtml interesting
details
Secrecy on
#TPPsigning aims
to thwart protest -
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11573385 "deal
they admit is already far below their original bottom lines"
EU and US poised to
lift Iranian sanctions this weekend -
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/13/the-lifting-of-iranian-sanctions-what-happens-next great
news for lots of reasons #iran
Pope Francis to join
Google's Eric Schmidt in rare tech industry meeting -
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/13/pope-francis-google-alphabet-eric-schmidt-vatican-meeting-us-tech-ceo </insert
witty joke here>
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