Sunday, 7 December 2014

141207


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 141206 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.de/2014/12/141206.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page

Concern Over Russian “Piracy Buster” Internet Tax - http://torrentfreak.com/concern-over-russian-piracy-buster-internet-tax-141207/ understandably #russia

Inside the petrochemical industry’s $36m 'research strategy' on ubiquitous poison benzene - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/04/-sp-documents-petrochemical-industry-poison-benzene results must be #opendata

Cruise Ships Flushed More Than a Billion Gallons of Sewage into Oceans Again This Year - http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2014/12/04/cruise-ships-flushed-more-billion-gallons-sewage-oceans-again-year cruises = disgusting

Cryptography Is Underhanded - http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/27783-glenn-greenwald-forgets-cypherpunk-history if you are worried about commercial encryption, just use #opensource... (v @ggreenwald)

NSA-Ausschuss: Bundesregierung will #Snowden-Dokument nicht herausgeben - http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundesregierung-verweigert-nsa-ausschuss-snowden-dokument-a-1007072.html "ob er an USA ausgeliefert werden müsste"

Please Write to Your MP about Plain Packaging for Cigarettes - http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.de/2014/12/please-write-to-your-mp-about-plain.html we need planned #UK laws to be brought in now #smoking


Duncan Campbell über das, was sich nach Snowdens Enthüllungen politisch getan hat - http://taz.de/!150873/ (v @netzpolitik)

Farage blames immigration for traffic on M4 after no-show at Ukip reception - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/07/nigel-farage-blames-immigration-m4-traffic-ukip-reception this just bonkers #kippers

Hardship on Mexico's farms, a bounty for US - http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-camps/ #NAFTA produced this; #TPP will make it worse (v @raypride @asteris)


141206


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 141205 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.ro/2014/12/141205.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page
Surveillance law allows police to act in an unacceptable way, say MPs - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/06/surveillance-law-allows-police-act-unacceptable-way #RIPA must be revised completely

War by media and the triumph of propaganda - http://johnpilger.com/articles/war-by-media-and-the-triumph-of-propaganda angry but perceptive analysis by @johnpilger #wikileaks #snowden

When data gets creepy: the secrets we don’t realise we’re giving away - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/05/when-data-gets-creepy-secrets-were-giving-away spot-on piece by @bengoldacre


#FSF is hiring: Seeking a full-time outreach and communication coordinator - https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/the-fsf-is-hiring-seeking-a-full-time-outreach-and-communication-coordinator good, but crazy must work in Boston

STOP #TTIP in Cambridge; Great presentation by John Hilary - https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/12/05/stop-ttip-in-cambridge-great-presentation-by-john-hilary/ as ever...

#China’s Soft-Power Deficit Widens as Xi Tightens Screws Over Ideology - http://www.jamestown.org/programs/chinabrief/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=43160&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=25&cHash=d5d24d2f82c5981963c0180d300e62cd whoa, stand back everyone...

#China Conducts Third Flight Test of Hypersonic Strike Vehicle - http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-conducts-third-flight-test-of-hypersonic-strike-vehicle/ "capable of traveling up to 8 times speed of sound"

#China looking to curb fertilizer, pesticide use - http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/05/us-china-grain-fertilizers-idUSKCN0JJ0SO20141205 welcome, but long overdue #environment

#TTIP: What is wrong with chlorinated chicken - http://www.beuc.eu/blog/what-is-wrong-with-chlorinated-chicken/ a reminder about the facts about EU refusal (v @Perrin_Cam)

An invitation to take the #noTTIP Train to Brussels
http://www.wdm.org.uk/trade/invitation-take-ttip-train-brussels great idea; why not get on board...?

Smuggled Antiquities Fund ISIL’s Campaigns - https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2014/12/06/smuggled-antiquities-fund-isils-campaigns/ how the Iraq War led to this latest destruction of humanity's heritage

Osborne oversees biggest fossil fuel boom since North Sea oil discovery - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/06/george-osborne-fossil-fuel-energy-environment not just incompetent but dangerous too


Saturday, 6 December 2014

141205


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 141204 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.ro/2014/12/141204.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page

"The most surprising opinion I got out of him was his 95 per cent-of-the-way refusal to support the #TPP" - http://ruminator.co.nz/no-bullshit-andrew-little/ #NZ

US Government Study Predicts #TPP Trade Agreement Will Produce Practically No Extra Growth For Anyone - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141126/07490629257/us-government-study-predicts-tpp-trade-agreement-will-produce-practically-no-extra-growth-anyone.shtml why bother?

Sind #TTIP und #CETA eine Gefahr für Klima und Umwelt? - http://www.neueenergie.net/politik/europa/sind-ttip-und-ceta-eine-gefahr-fuer-klima-und-umwelt (v @andrea_licata)

Investigatory Powers Tribunal rules #GCHQ mass surveillance programme TEMPORA is legal in principle - https://www.privacyinternational.org/node/3 #whitewash

#UKIP's Farage says women who breastfeed in public should 'sit in the corner' - http://mashable.com/2014/12/05/nigel-farage-women-breastfeeding/ his mum must be so proud #kippers

The Alicantation of the European Patent Office - http://ipkitten.blogspot.ro/2014/12/the-alicantation-of-european-patent.html #EPO is a farce wrapped up in a joke...

Stop Forests Being Erased Through Illegal Logging - http://www.wwf.org.uk/how_you_can_help/campaign_with_us/forest_campaign/ #epetition

One man's fight against #Africa's ivory poachers - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/05/one-mans-fight-against-africas-ivory-poachers shame on #hongkong for its complicity in this massacre

#TTIP: "Trade supporters have been taken aback by the opposition." - http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/12/05/Europeans-fear-American-Frankenfood-in-trade-deal/7401417757411/ well, try listening more...

Law to ban wild animals in UK circuses being blocked by three Tory MPs - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/05/law-to-ban-wild-animals-in-uk-circuses-being-blocked-by-three-tory-mps what selfish, backward scum

Engaging with #OpenSource Brings Competitive Advantage - http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/samsung-3589966/ get close to projects you depend on before your rivals do

#NHS budget squeeze 'to benefit private healthcare' - http://www.aviva.co.uk/healthcarezone/about-us/news/latest-news/nhs-budget-squeeze-to-benefit-private-healthcare/  (v @NHAparty @Spinwatch)

.@washingtonpost reports: Free trade with U.S.? Europe balks at chlorine chicken, hormone beef. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/free-trade-with-us-europe-balks-at-chlorine-chicken-hormone-beef/2014/12/04/e9aa131c-6c3f-11e4-bafd-6598192a448d_story.html  (v @PCGTW)#TTIP

Emboldened By Midterms, ALEC’s Anti-Environment And Clean Energy Agenda Is Worse Than Ever - http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/05/3599846/getting-turned-away-from-the-alec-conference/ (v @sivavaid)

Ron Wyden Introduces Legislation Aimed At Preventing FBI-Mandated Backdoors In Cellphones And Computers - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141204/16220529333/ron-wyden-introduces-legislation-aimed-preventing-fbi-mandated-backdoors-cellphones-computers.shtml bravo

OpenMedia: Your support will enable us to fight the Trans-Pacific Partnership's Internet censorship in 2015! - https://openmedia.org/expression/donate #TPP

#Germany: privatisation of 32% stake in DTelekom - see why they will veto #netneutrality? - http://chrismarsden.blogspot.ro/2014/12/germany-privatisation-of-32-stake-in.html money before morals...

"Was heißt innovationsfreundliches Net? Es bedeutet, dass es eine bestimmte Sicherheit für Spezialdienste gibt" - https://netzpolitik.org/2014/einstieg-ins-zweiklassennetz-bundesregierung-legt-gemeinsames-position-zur-netzneuralitraet-vor/ no

Europe greenlights construction of Extremely Large Telescope - http://mashable.com/2014/12/05/extremely-large-telescope/ oooh, that's exciting #science

POC21 program wants to bring Open Source solution to the Sustainability problem - http://www.open-electronics.org/poc21-program-wants-to-bring-open-source-solution-to-the-sustainability-problem/ "solutions for sustainable living"

MEPs block push to delay safer lorries - http://www.transportenvironment.org/news/meps-block-push-delay-safer-lorries quite right: many children will die unnecessary with a selfish delay #FR #SE

Why Requiring Social Networks To Monitor Posts To Spot Terrorists Will Make It Even Harder To Catch Them - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141203/09501829313/why-requiring-social-networks-to-monitor-posts-to-spot-terrorists-will-make-it-even-harder-to-catch-them.shtml

"anxious to find ways of subverting public protests against local [hospital] closures and service changes" - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/05/more-nhs-hospitals-privately-operated-healthcare-shakeup-review-dalton #NHS



Friday, 5 December 2014

141204


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 141203 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2014/12/141203.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page

Self-organised European citizens’ initiative against #TTIP & #CETA tops a million signatures in record time - https://stop-ttip.org/self-organised-european-citizens-initiative-us-canada-trade-deals-tops-million-signatures-record-time/ yay

.@Nature's fauxpen access leaves me very sad and very angry. - http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/12/03/natures-fauxpen-access-leaves-me-very-sad-and-very-angry/ @petermurrayrust is angry - and eloquent

A million sign petition against EU-US trade talks - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30316819 so big, even @BBCNews was forced to write about it... #TTIP

#ISDS has already cost #EU €3bn, likely cost €30bn once all claims settled - http://www.foeeurope.org/hidden-cost-eu-trade-deals remember: it's the public that pays

The hidden cost of EU trade deals - http://www.foeeurope.org/hidden-cost-eu-trade-deals hugely important study presenting hard facts about #ISDS for 1st time #TTIP #CETA

Administration's Review Of Pentagon's 1033 Program Finds It Has No Rules, No Transparency And No Oversight - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141203/11032829315/administrations-review-pentagons-1033-program-finds-it-has-no-rules-no-transparency-no-oversight.shtml great

Activist MEPs put #tarsands 'dirty label' back on the agenda - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/energy/activist-meps-put-canadian-tar-sands-label-back-agenda-310573 huge kudos to them after @EU_Commission's betrayal

sad to see that @MalmstromEU is happy to talk with lobbyists about #TTIP, but never with EU public - http://eu-ems.com/summary.asp?event_id=248&page_id=2179 #transparency

Congressional Financial Services Committee leaders: Exclude #ISDS from #TTIP - See more at: http://www.bilaterals.org/?congressional-financial-services everyone is saying it

In suspense about the European Patent Office? You're not the only one - http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2014/12/in-suspense-about-european-patent.html #EPO in meltdown? fit to run #UnitaryPatent?

TTIP Update XLIV - http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/ttip-update-xliv-3589557/ exploring more #ISDS dangers in #CETA and #TTIP - & in EU-#Singapore FTA #EUSFTA

Netzneutralität: Merkel plädiert für "Spezialdienste" im Internet - http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Netzneutralitaet-Merkel-plaediert-fuer-Spezialdienste-im-Internet-2480941.html this is bad: she's been taken in by telecom's FUD



FBI Seizes 20 Boxes Of Documents Related To Los Angeles School District's $1.3 Billion iPad Program - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141203/08374929310/fbi-seizes-20-boxes-documents-related-to-los-angeles-school-districts-13-billion-ipad-program.shtml

Freihandelsabkommen #TTIP, #TiSA und #CETA schränken kommunale Demokratie ein - http://www.mitentscheiden.de/10838.html death of the #commons


Seeking new Executive Director at #OpenKnowledge - http://blog.okfn.org/2014/11/11/seeking-new-executive-director-at-open-knowledge/ anyone want this job?

Osborne’s spending cuts will change state ‘beyond recognition’, says IFS - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/04/george-osborne-spending-cuts-change-state-beyond-recognition-ifs the plan all along, of course #austerity

NYPD Baffled By Tech Advances Like Laptops And WiFi - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141203/17132429323/nypd-baffled-tech-advances-like-laptops-wifi.shtml poor dears...

Authors Guild Argues That Google Books Should Be Infringing Because Aaron Swartz - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141204/07133929328/authors-guild-argues-that-google-books-should-be-infringing-because-aaron-swartz.shtml huh???



Thursday, 4 December 2014

141203


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 141202 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.ca/2014/12/141202.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page


Yeb Saño, vocal critic of west, dropped from Lima climate talks - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/02/yeb-sano-vocal-critic-west-dropped-lima-climate-talks disgraceful if due to Western bullying

Producers of good food and farming practices need to keep a keen eye on the #TTIP  talks - http://eat-better.greens-efa.eu/ttip-talks-13194.html conference, 10 December

Like The NSA And GCHQ, Germany's Foreign Intelligence Agency Uses A Legal Loophole To Spy On Its Own Citizens - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141202/09513729296/like-nsa-gchq-germanys-foreign-intelligence-agency-uses-legal-loophole-to-spy-its-own-citizens.shtml #BND

Fossil fuels receive €439 billion in subsidies - http://www.transportenvironment.org/news/fossil-fuels-receive-%E2%82%AC439-billion-subsidies not just absurd, suicidal

UK police arrest man built anti-immigrant nail-bomb, decline to press terrorism charges - http://boingboing.net/2014/12/02/uk-police-arrest-man-built-ant.html #doublestandards much?

Strange Bedfellows Are Blocking The McConnell-Obama Trade Deal - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/mitch-mcconnell-tpp-tea-party_n_6182126.html intriguing analysis #TPP #TTIP


Civil Society Files Opposition To #Monsanto Climate-Related Soybean Patent - http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/12/03/civil-society-files-opposition-to-monsanto-climate-related-soybean-patent/ #EPO's pernicious influence again

.@nytimes: When Corporations Sue Governments - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/opinion/when-corporations-sue-governments.html #ISDS "like playing soccer on half the field" #TTIP #TAFTA #TPP

Canada – EU Data Sharing Agreement Sent to EU Court of Justice for Review - http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/12/canada-european-union-data-sharing-agreement-sent-eu-court-justice-review/ "delayed by at least 1 to 3 years"

Medical tourism generates millions for #NHS and wider economy, finds study - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/24/medical-tourism-generates-millions-nhs-health oh look: Jeremy Hunt exactly wrong

#ISDS  in Europe - http://irblog.eu/investor-state-dispute-settlement/ "if it is left in, a great deal more of global FDI flows will suddenly be covered by ISDS." #TTIP

The Repeated Failure Of The US And UK Governments' 'Add More Hay' Approach To #Surveillance - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141201/09320729286/repeated-failure-us-uk-governments-add-more-hay-approach-to-surveillance.shtml so do something else

Trade Commissioner & Parliament: A Vital Relationship - http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-14-2348_en.htm oh look: cars cited again - 'cos main area #TTIP makes sense


Tibetan singer convicted in Sichuan after taking part in concerts encouraging people to learn Tibetan - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/01/china-jails-tibetan-singer-kalsang-yarphel-political-lyrics awful #china

Help save the red gum trees of #Australia from logging companies - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/174/259/441/ more signatures needed

Supporting justice and DNA forensics in #Guatemala: FAFG's “No More Missing“ campaign - http://boingboing.net/2014/12/03/supporting-justice-and-dna-for.html

It has arrived: DJ Earworm's epic mashup of 2014's biggest pop songs - http://mashable.com/2014/12/03/dj-earworm-2014-mashup/ amazing, as ever

Stop #TTIP and #CETA petition just tipped over the million signatures mark - http://stop-ttip.org/sign/ well done; now let's go for 2,000,000...

NYPD says #WeHearYou as cop avoids charges; tweet promptly backfires - http://mashable.com/2014/12/03/nypd-tweet-wehearyou/ tin ear much?

430 Billion Web Pages Saved….Help Us Do More! - http://blog.archive.org/2014/12/03/430-billion-web-pages-saved-help-us-do-more/ @brewster_kahle is a hero


Wednesday, 3 December 2014

141202


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 141201 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2014/12/141201.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page

Stop US pressure on India #SaveOurMedicines - https://act.oxfam.org/india/save-our-medicines Monopoly power for the pharmaceutical industry could kill many

No Joke: #China's Broadcasting Authority Bans Puns And Wordplay - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141201/07071229283/no-joke-chinas-broadcasting-authority-bans-puns-wordplay.shtml maybe more serious than it looks

Swedish company Vattenfall is suing Germany for 4.7 billion Euros - http://action.sumofus.org/a/vattenfall-lawsuit/ all thanks to #ISDS



Toiletry chemicals linked to testicular cancer and male infertility cost EU millions - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/02/toiletries-health-impact-could-cost-millions-report-says ban endocrine disruptors now

Bill Gates and the True Nature of #OpenAccess - http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/open-access-3589444/ @BillGates gets it; just say 'no' to @nature's fauxpen access


The Challenge of Keeping Hazardous Consumer Products Off US Market - http://www.regblog.org/2014/11/24/sell-cpsc-effectiveness/ #TTIP could bring all these EU #precautionary

St Louis Police Claim It's Their 'First Amendment' Rights Not To Protect Football Players Who Supported Protestors - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141202/06363629292/st-louis-police-claim-its-their-first-amendment-rights-not-to-protect-football-players-who-supported-protestors.shtml

The '#carbonbubble': Why fossil fuels could be a far riskier investment than you think - http://mashable.com/2014/12/02/bank-of-england-carbon-bubble-climate/ get your money out now...

 #CETA's fate may hinge on outcome of EU-Singapore trade ratification - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/fate-of-ceta-may-hinge-on-outcome-of-singapore-eu-trade-agreement/article21862184/ "case due to come before the ECJ"

Stephen Hawking's new speech system is free and open-source - http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-12/02/stephen-hawking-intel-communication-system great

Seven things you should know about EU-#Singapore #ISDS - http://acta.ffii.org/?p=2280 why we'd be crazy to finalise this FTA

Conference: For a citizen’s trade agenda: STOP #TTIP, #CETA, #TISA - http://www.bilaterals.org/?conference-for-a-citizen-s-trade European Parliament, Brussels

RBS Bankers Guilty of £3m Fraud Walk Free, Judge Says They’ve ‘Suffered’ Enough - http://www.scriptonitedaily.com/2014/12/02/rbs-bankers-guilty-of-3m-fraud-walk-free-judge-says-theyve-suffered-enough/ read the Atos stories - disgusting

Experts: #Fracking Industry Likely to Crash Due to OPEC Decision to Keep Oil Production High - http://www.alternet.org/fracking/experts-fracking-industry-likely-crash-due-opec-decision-keep-oil-production-high NB UK...

German appellate court upholds common-sense attribution - https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/43939 interesting and important case #cc #copyright



Monday, 1 December 2014

141201


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 141130 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.de/2014/11/141130.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page

Chaos Computer Club profitiert vom „Snowden-Effekt“ - http://www.wsj.de/nachrichten/SB10104134133213903948904580300884289710578 nice profile of an influential group #ccc

.@MalmstromEU:"Erstens wird TTIP neue... Arbeitsplätze schaffen" - http://www.faz.net/frankfurter-allgemeine-zeitung/gastbeitrag-von-eu-kommissarin-cecilia-malmstroem-zum-freihandelsabkomme-13295017.html no: EU's own forecast does not show that at all

.@MalmstromEU:"1400 [ISDS] Abkommen haben die EU-Mitgliedstaaten mit Drittstaaten abgeschlossen" - but not with US & its litigious cos.

.@MalmstromEU:"Im #CETA, haben wir das [#ISDS] grundlegend reformiert & klar eingegrenzt": sorry, simply not true - https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/making-sense-ceta

The Impact of #TTIP on Biofuel and Feedstock Markets - http://www.card.iastate.edu/publications/dbs/pdffiles/14wp552.pdf "limited net welfare gains with most reaped by #Brazil"


What if #TTIP fails? - http://www.die-gdi.de/en/the-current-column/article/what-if-ttip-fails/ "opposition is truly leaving the TTIP negotiations hanging in the balance" (v @snlester)#ISDS

Stop #TTIP and #CETA petition at an amazing 981,041 signatures - https://stop-ttip.org/sign/ let's make it a million

Music Publishers With Help From Rightscorp Test Legal Theory That DMCA Requires Kicking Repeat Infringers Off Net - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141128/05045629270/music-publishers-with-help-rightscorp-test-legal-theory-that-dmca-requires-kicking-repeat-infringers-off-internet.shtml

Eircode could become next Irish Water - http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/eircode-could-become-next-irish-water-297037.html what a fiasco: €16m for non-sequential postcodes /cc @glinner