Moody's Microblog
Daily Digest 150920 -
http://moodysmdd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/150920.html
yesterday's tweets as a single page
Nuclear plant
project a step closer as Osborne makes £2bn guarantee -
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/21/nuclear-plant-project-osbornes-commits-2bn-guarantee UK
gov pig-headed in the face of the facts...
John Key: #TPP will
be 'best we can do' -
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11516583 as
expected, he's preparing for the sell-out... #NZ
Does the
Commission’s new proposal mark the end of #ISDS?
-
http://ttip2015.eu/blog-detail/blog/ICS%20first%20analysis.html nope;
excellent, detailed analysis why
Do the Commission’s
reform proposals for #ISDS really
solve the problem? -
https://stop-ttip.org/blog/do-the-commissions-reform-proposals-for-isds-really-solve-the-problem/ nope
again; useful tabular analysis
"No 10 did not
recognise any of the allegations" -
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/21/david-cameron-pig-head-lord-ashcroft-unofficial-biography-drug-taking-claims this
"non-recognition" has become standard non-denial denial
EU commission
#ISDS proposal a
threat to democracy and civil rights -
https://blog.ffii.org/eu-commission-isds-proposal-a-threat-to-democracy-and-civil-rights/ another
important analysis
VW Accused Of Using
Software To Fool Emissions Tests: Welcome To The Internet Of Cheating
Things -
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150920/03163032307/vw-accused-using-software-to-fool-emissions-tests-welcome-to-internet-cheating-things.shtml
Lipstick
on the TTIP pig -
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/gus-fagan/lipstick-on-ttip-pig further
useful analysis of the #TTIP &
#CETA mess, and
why they must go
France confirms that
Google must remove search results globally, or face big fines -
http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/09/france-confirms-that-google-must-remove-search-results-globally-or-face-big-fines/ things
are getting heavy
German minister
tells Volkswagen to clear up emissions scandal -
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/21/volkswagen-shares-plunge-claims-falsified-emissions-data-us-epa getting
pretty serious now... #vw
OECD: leading
countries spend $200bn a year subsidising fossil fuels -
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/21/oecd-nations-200bn-subsidisies-fossil-fuels-climate-change paying
for our own destruction...clever
#India joins
war on #crypto,
wants everyone to keep plaintext copies of all encrypted data for 90
days -
http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/09/india-joins-war-on-crypto-wants-everyone-to-keep-plaintext-copies-of-all-encrypted-data-for-90-days/ bonkers
26,000 Canadian jobs
at risk as #TPP auto
talks resume, Unifor says -
http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/manufacturing/26000-canadian-jobs-at-risk-as-tpp-auto-talks-resume-unifor-says-154792/ but
hey, getting any agreement more important
An #ISDS Carve-Out
to Support Action on Climate Change -
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2663504 "to
identify language for an ISDS carve-out"
Company Acquires
Rights To Drug Used By AIDS/Cancer Patients; Raises Per Pill Price
From Under $14 To $750 -
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150919/20520132300/company-acquires-rights-to-drug-used-aidscancer-patients-immediately-raises-per-pill-price-under-14-to-750.shtml lovely
#VW scandal
shows well why corporations cannot be trusted to have any control of
regulatory mechanisms, as #TTIP intends:
they will cheat
