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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 160306 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2016/03/160306.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

Clowns kicked out of Trans Pacific Partnership roadshow - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11601381 "send in the clowns..." #TPP #NZ

Diese Musiklehrerin könnte das Freihandelsabkommen Ceta stoppen - http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/buergerklage-wie-eine-musiklehrerin-das-freihandelsabkommen-ceta-zu-fall-bringen-koennte-1.2878197 #CETA

Tell the EU: don't prosecute people for helping drowning refugees - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/takeaction/720/632/808/ astonishing failure of compassion

A #CETA investment court is not the solution - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/a-ceta-investment-court-is-not-the-solution/article29034167/ doesn't deal with central problem of sovereignty

Mathematics meets music - http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/03/mathematics-meets-music/ fascinating stuff

#France votes to penalise companies for refusing to decrypt devices, messages - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/03/france-votes-to-penalise-companies-for-refusing-to-decrypt-devices-messages/ but @UN says #crypto saves lives

Alibaba's Ant Financial could be valued at nearly $50 billion: WSJ - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-alibaba-antfinancial-idUSKCN0W91EF not bad #china

Relocating Nepal's rhinos - in pictures - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2016/mar/07/relocating-nepals-rhinos-in-pictures great work, #nepal - keep it up...

Abuse Of Power: Laws Should Be Designed As If The People We Distrust The Most Are In Power - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160306/07562633815/abuse-power-laws-should-be-designed-as-if-people-we-distrust-most-are-power.shtml great post

Meet Lucy Gavaghan, The Teen Who's Trying To Make Tesco Stop Selling Eggs From Caged Hens - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/03/07/lucy-gavaghan-teen-stop-tesco-selling-eggs-from-caged-hens_n_9396972.html

DRM Is Evil, Part 8,492: Nook Pulls Out Of UK, Exploring Options 2 Let People Retain Access To At Least Some Books - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160307/07264233819/drm-is-evil-part-8492-nook-pulls-out-uk-exploring-options-to-let-people-retain-access-to-least-some-books.shtml

French Parents Face Fines, Lawsuits And Prison For Posting Pictures Of Their Own Children Online - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160302/07480733781/french-parents-face-fines-lawsuits-prison-posting-pictures-their-own-children-online.shtml quoi? #privacy

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 160305 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2016/03/160305.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

EU health commissioner moves towards disclosure of industry pesticide studies - http://www.gmwatch.org/news/latest-news/16771-eu-health-commissioner-moves-towards-disclosure-of-industry-pesticide-studies long overdue #opendata

UK people: pl. write to MPs using www.writetothem.com asking for more time to debate #IPBill; I've sent this: http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2016/03/please-write-mps-to-call-for-more-time.html

Alexander Litvinenko and the most radioactive towel in history - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/06/alexander-litvinenko-and-the-most-radioactive-towel-in-history frightening stuff...

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 160304 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.de/2016/03/160304.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

Full Brief From San Bernardino District Attorney Even More Insane Than Application About 'Dormant Cyber Pathogen' - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160304/17382433809/full-brief-san-bernardino-district-attorney-even-more-insane-than-application-about-dormant-cyber-pathogen.shtml

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 160303 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.de/2016/03/160303.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

San Bernardino DA says seized iPhone may hold “dormant cyber pathogen” - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/03/san-bernardino-da-says-seized-iphone-may-hold-dormant-cyber-pathogen/ what new idiocy is this?

World’s largest floating solar farm prepares to power up in London - http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/03/worlds-largest-floating-solar-farm-prepares-to-power-up-in-london/ exciting stuff; more like this needed

Privacy International, together with Human Rights Watch, submits a briefing to US court on Apple-FBI case - https://privacyinternational.org/node/776

Digital Golems. #Copyright and Lex Electronica - http://www.iscc.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article2196 in French

DGB lehnt Investitionsschutz in #TTIP und CETA ab - http://www.dgb.de/themen/++co++ec7c1efc-e1e9-11e5-98b7-52540023ef1a  "für TTIP keine Investitionsschutzvorschriften notwendig sind"

We Read All 20 Filings In Support Of Apple Against The FBI; Here Are The Most Interesting Points - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160303/23482933802/we-read-all-20-filings-support-apple-against-fbi-here-are-most-interesting-points.shtml wow, amazing post

Biggest patent troll of 2014 gives up, drops appeal - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/03/biggest-patent-troll-of-2014-gives-up-drops-appeal/ yay - this is very good news

Last chance for a pro-transparency trade legacy for Obama - http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/271678-last-chance-for-a-pro-transparency-trade-legacy-for-obama point about advantage of EU transparency in #TTIP

Tech Companies Ask European Commission Not To Wreck The Internet -- And You Can Too - https://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20160302/10004433783/tech-companies-ask-european-commission-not-to-wreck-internet-you-can-too.shtml

#China bans depictions of gay people on television - http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/04/china-bans-gay-people-television-clampdown-xi-jinping-censorship also: don't bring back re-incarnation either...

#NZ Govt majority on #TPP committee shows hearings are a farce - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1603/S00062/govt-majority-on-tppa-committee-shows-hearings-are-a-farce.htm scared of real scrutiny...

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 160302 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2016/03/160302.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

Landfill ban wins Polish backing ahead of EU talks on waste - http://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/landfill-ban-wins-polish-backing-ahead-of-eu-talks-on-waste/ not "red tape", but great example of what EU does well

Respect My Net: online platform to report Net Neutrality violations - https://www.laquadrature.net/en/relaunching-respectmynet being relaunched

#Adblockers are “akin to a modern day protection racket,“ says UK culture minister - http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/03/adblockers-are-akin-to-a-modern-day-protection-racket-says-uk-culture-minister/ vaguely threatens new laws

Oil and gas industry has pumped millions into Republican campaigns - http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/03/oil-and-gas-industry-has-pumped-millions-into-republican-campaigns this is bribery, pure and simple...

Mysterious Chimpanzee Behaviour May Be Evidence Of “Sacred" Rituals - http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mysterious-chimpanzee-behaviour-may-be-evidence-sacred-rituals maybe we shouldn't drive them to extinction...

Sense about Science is recruiting an AllTrials campaign manager - http://www.alltrials.net/news/were-recruiting-for-a-campaigns-manager/ make a difference to important stuff...

Surprise: Pro-Surveillance WSJ Editorial Board Sides With Apple Over FBI - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160302/16241733787/surprise-pro-surveillance-wsj-editorial-board-sides-with-apple-over-fbi.shtml that's good

.@TheProgressives want to block a proposal by the European Commission to extend the authorisation of #glyphosate - http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9e180a6b42ef1eae663a9e517&id=6e88a3fdb2&e=78e1c0c8ff

End the 20kg Personal Import Allowance of Shark Fins to Europe - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/936/592/285/end-the-20kg-personal-import-allowance-of-shark-fins-to-europe/ this is just absurd

Berta Cáceres, Honduran environment and human rights activist, murdered - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/03/honduras-berta-caceres-murder-enivronment-activist-human-rights appalling; honduran govt must act

David Cameron: Accept the FOI Comission's recommendation to extend Freedom of Information to private companies - https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/676

Desperation Shows As Critics Argue That Nominated Librarian Of Congress Is 'Pro Obscenity' - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160302/17223033788/desperation-shows-as-critics-argue-that-nominated-librarian-congress-is-pro-obscenity.shtml ridiculous

.@BarackObama says that urgent action is needed to save #elephants from going extinct - http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/03/obama-urgent-action-needed-save-elephants-extinct bravo; and he's right, alas

State Department Backs Off Criminalizing Security Research Tools - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160303/06444633789/state-department-backs-off-criminalizing-security-research-tools.shtml let's hope others follow suit #wassenaar

Our Hemisphere’s Temperature Just Reached a Terrifying Milestone - http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/03/01/february_2016_s_shocking_global_warming_temperature_record.html but the #denialists they just keep on denying...

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 160301 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2016/03/160301.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

UN says the #TPP threatens Indigenous rights - http://canadians.org/blog/un-says-tpp-threatens-indigenous-rights yet another reason to bin it #ca

Revised #SnoopersCharter ignores key criticisms, widens police powers further - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/03/revised-snoopers-charter-ignores-key-criticisms-widens-police-powers-further/ slap in the face for MPs & public

#Canada Agrees To Use EU's 'Lipstick On A Pig' Version Of #ISDS For #CETA - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160229/09045433758/canada-agrees-to-use-eus-lipstick-pig-version-corporate-sovereignty-ceta.shtml #ICS still bad

After Some Dangerous Wavering, Indian Patent Office Gives Definitive 'No' To Software Patents - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160224/07390233697/after-some-dangerous-wavering-indian-patent-office-gives-definitive-no-to-software-patents.shtml #swpats #india

#ISDS platform is an online resource tool focused on the highly controversial ISDS - http://isds.bilaterals.org/ looks useful; also in #fr #es

The seven sins of the EU investment court - http://isds.bilaterals.org/?the-seven-sins-of-the-eu "dangerous investor privileges must be scrapped" #ISDS #ICS

#TPP: Would anybody mind if the deal fell over? - http://www.smh.com.au/comment/close-but-no-transpacific-partnership-cigar-hillary-20160301-gn7pjo.html good presentation of the facts here...

Rehashed Investigatory Powers Bill attacked by techies, privacy warriors, and politicos - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/03/tech-firms-privacy-warriors-and-politicos-attack-rehashed-investigatory-powers-bill/ everyone agrees it's awful

bishops hid sex abuse by 'monster' priest 40 years, jury finds - http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/02/pennsylvania-bishops-hid-priest-sex-abuse-children  "ignored by religious & secular authorities"

The rise of #ISDS in the extractive sectors: challenges & considerations for African countries - http://isds.bilaterals.org/?the-rise-of-investor-state-dispute will be big problem

#Romania loses for good the trial against the Miculas, following ICSID decision - http://isds.bilaterals.org/?state-loses-for-good-the-trial #ISDS at work #EU

Shocking New Statistics Highlight the Desperate Living Conditions of One of the Largest Native American Tribes - http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/shocking-new-statistics-highlight-desperate-living-conditions-one-largest-native

Climate deniers lose key talking point as satellites show temperatures hit all-time highs - http://mashable.com/2016/03/02/february-warmest-month-satellite/ #awkward 4 them, not us

The worst drought in 900 years helped spark Syria's civil war - http://mashable.com/2016/03/02/syria-drought-900-years-civil-war/ just a foretaste of what's to come #climatechange

Did MI5 & GCHQ know about Savile but kept it quiet? - https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/02/honest-guv-i-didnt-see-nuffin/ if they didn't know, they are clearly incompetent

Leonardo DiCaprio does a whole lot more than just talk about #climatechange - http://mashable.com/2016/03/02/leonardo-dicaprio-climate-activist/ kudos to him...

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 160229 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2016/02/160229.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

Japan recognises 'right to be forgotten' of man convicted of child sex offences - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/01/japan-recognises-right-to-be-forgotten-of-man-convicted-of-child-sex-offences could be a bit controversial...

EU commission goes into denial mode regarding effect #ISDS on software patents - https://blog.ffii.org/eu-commission-goes-into-denial-mode-regarding-effect-isds-on-software-patents/ important point #CETA #TTIP

revised draft Investigatory Powers Bill now available here - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/investigatory-powers-bill  #IPBill #snooperscharter

Remains of Anglo-Saxon island discovered in Lincolnshire village - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/01/anglo-saxon-island-remains-discovered-lincolnshire-little-carlton-sheffield-university kudos to responsible metal detector user