131109

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 131108 - http://bit.ly/1ae5kEP  yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Political Candidate Proudly Abuses YouTube's (c) Complaint System To Kill Account Of Activists Who Mocked Him - http://bit.ly/1aKCqir

 UK blocks attempt by Council of Europe to examine online spying - http://bit.ly/1dTRk4q  British government becoming laughing stock of EU

AllTrials appeal - http://bit.ly/1iTyiM6  video of inimitable @bengoldacre, who needs your money; pl. give it to him: http://www.alltrials.net/

Typhoon Haiyan the biggest yet as world's tropical storms gather force - http://bit.ly/1hUXF2k  some useful facts & figures #climatechange

RBC and Capital Economics challenge Harper’s #CETA  claims - http://bit.ly/1d8irrs  time to pop the trade agreement bubble #TAFTA / #TTIP

Pakistani Govt to cough up Rs90m for ICSID case - http://bit.ly/1fqRO2o  what a waste of money #pk

22 Examples Of #NSA  Surveillance Creating Chilling Effects - http://bit.ly/1gy8YhF  already happening, going to get worse

38 Million Retirees Join Workers & Consumers to Say No to #TPP , Would Make Medicine More Expensive - http://bit.ly/1ae8kAZ  cf. #TAFTA / #TTIP

Will Labour reverse the privatisation of the NHS? - http://ind.pn/1hUYWqe   #Labour  must make saving #NHS  central to their political platform

Daylight robbery: the burglar who came to stay - http://bit.ly/1cKcQeW  extraordinary, infuriating story

two naval intelligence admirals face probe in Navy bribery scheme - http://wapo.st/17mdvRi  this, not #Snowden , is real threat to US security

European Parliament Members Explore Decriminalizing File-Sharing - http://bit.ly/1d9cZoc  the usual MEPs who get it, of course...

 Paradise Lost: Paranoia Has Undermined #US  Democracy - http://bit.ly/17KEarz  interesting analysis (v @SMaurizi)#NSA  #torture

#Surveillance : Needles in Haystacks - http://bit.ly/17mziZ3  "It’s the metadata, stupid…" lots of good thoughts, as ever, from @PaulbernalUK

The Social Dimensions of Free Trade Agreements - http://bit.ly/1gyNO36  scandalous this hasn't been factored in so far #TAFTA / #TTIP

The more Americans know about #NSA , the less they like it - http://wapo.st/1cKWUcf  why we want transparency, & they don't (v @GarrettCobarr)

hospital hit by fresh fears over falsified cancer records - http://bit.ly/1daxEbK  what happens when you focus on targets, not treatment

true, you need to measure how successful treatments are, so you can manage them; but keep figures as a means to an end, not an end in itself

Why the Cornell paper on #Bitcoin  mining is important - http://bit.ly/1bn87uE  deep stuf

Feds subject drug suspect to vaginal/anal probe, X-ray, CT Scan, without warrant -- nothing - http://bit.ly/1hWsZO3  war on drugs insanity