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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 161220 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/161220.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

Investigatory Powers law setback: Blanket data slurp is illegal—CJEU - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/12/investigatory-powers-law-setback-blanket-data-slurp-illegal-top-eu-court/ huge win, v likely to be lost with #brexit

stop the government attack on the UK solar industry - https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/s/no-new-solar-taxes-v3 we must promote renewables, not kill them off like this

EU’s highest court delivers blow to UK snooper’s charter - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/dec/21/eus-highest-court-delivers-blow-to-uk-snoopers-charter UK will just ignore post-#brexit

The Document Foundation announces the MUFFIN, a new tasty user interface concept for LibreOffice - https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/12/21/the-document-foundation-announces-the-muffin-a-new-tasty-user-interface-concept-for-libreoffice/

#Solar and #windpower keep breaking cost records – but #Poland and #Hungary resist - http://www.transportenvironment.org/news/solar-and-wind-power-keep-breaking-cost-records-–-poland-and-hungary-resist stupid dogmatic self-harming

We’re about to sign a deal with Canada that’s just as bad as #TTIP & could increase inequality across EU - http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ceta-canada-deal-eu-brexit-europe-ttip-justin-trudeau-barack-obama-increase-inequality-across-a7482961.html #CETA

President Obama bans some ocean drilling areas forever - http://www.salon.com/2016/12/21/president-obama-bans-some-ocean-drilling-areas-forever/ great parting gift to trump and his denialists

European Information Security Advisory Says Mandating Encryption Backdoors Will Just Make Everything Worse - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161219/13242936307/european-information-security-advisory-says-mandating-encryption-backdoors-will-just-make-everything-worse.shtml

Cost of #solar energy dropped 30% in year; Trump’s coal plan won’t work - http://boingboing.net/2016/12/19/cost-of-solar-energy-dropped-3.html he never did understand economics, did he?

Going green in China, where climate change isn’t considered a hoax - http://www.salon.com/2016/12/12/going-green-in-china-where-climate-change-isnt-considered-a-hoax/ US throwing away its leadership here

EU court rulings a ‘real disappointment’ to multinationals in state aid cases - expert - http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2016/december/eu-court-rulings-a-real-disappointment-to-multinationals-in-state-aid-cases-says-expert/ aw, poor oppressed petals

India surpasses Britain to become world’s fifth largest economy - http://mashable.com/2016/12/20/major-world-economies-based-on-gdp/ #brexit already working it magic

Hope Not Hate reports huge response to Farage legal fund appeal - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/21/hope-not-hate-reports-huge-response-to-nigel-farage-legal-fund-appeal time to sue this slug back into the ground…

Google sued over policies ‘barring employees from writing novels’ - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/21/google-sued-policies-barring-employees-writing-novels stranger than fiction

Multilateral investment court would impede measures on #climatechange - https://blog.ffii.org/multilateral-investment-court-would-impede-measures-on-climate-change/ no politician should back it #ISDS

Questionnaire on options 4 a multilateral reform of investment dispute resolution - http://trade.ec.europa.eu/consultations/index.cfm?consul_id=233 pl. tell them: we do not need it