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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150828 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/08/150828.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

We are not obliged to offer cheapest tickets, says train firm email - http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/aug/29/we-are-not-obliged-to-offer-cheapest-tickets-says-train-firm-email another reason to re-nationalise railways...

Steven Moffat: 'Only the BBC would have come up with #DoctorWho' - http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/29/doctor-who-bbc-steven-moffat or #MontyPython...

Virginia shooting victim's father says he will need to buy gun to defend himself - http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/28/virginia-shooting-lone-survivor-reveals-terrifying-details </sigh> from the gun nutters...

Richard Stallman writes: "I'm looking for people to..." - https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc #RMS

Croatian policy encourages open source adoption - http://opensource.com/government/15/8/croatia-open-source-policy nice, but what hope for implementation? #hr

TUC briefing on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (#TTIP) - https://www.tuc.org.uk/international-issues/tuc-briefing-transatlantic-trade-and-investment-partnership-ttip finally wakes up to dangers

FSFE supports recognition for User Data Rights - https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150829-01.en.html well, course...

Hunted: could you go on the run in UK's extreme surveillance state? - http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/aug/29/hunted-channel-4-surveillance-show-reality-hacking too much to hope this might shake complacency

Obama defends Arctic drilling decision on eve of Alaska climate change trip - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/29/obama-arctic-drilling-alaska-trip-climate-change “self-defeating hypocrisy”.

TTIP explained: The secretive US-EU treaty that undermines democracy - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/05/ttip-explained-the-secretive-us-eu-treaty-that-undermines-democracy/ background reading for big #TTIP autumn push

TIP Updates - The Glyn Moody blogs - http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/ttip-updates--the-glyn-moody-blogs-3569438/ these 51 posts give all the twists & turns over last two & half years #ISDS

50 years after its death, Thames is again home to seals, whales, and dolphins - http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/08/seals-dolphins-and-whales-spotted-in-the-thames/ Thamesmaidens are grateful... #lunnon

Jeremy Corbyn will have to learn Blairite lessons if I'm deputy, says Caroline Flint - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/29/jeremy-corbyn-learn-blairite-lessons-if-im-labour-deputy-caroline-flint so draw the obvious conclusion

West Point Professor Calls On US Military To Target Legal Critics Of War On Terror - http://www.alternet.org/west-point-professor-calls-us-military-target-legal-critics-war-terror domestic ones next, presumably

Lexmark’s war against a man who recycles toner cartridges - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/op-ed-lexmarks-war-against-a-man-who-recycles-toner-cartridges/ ridiculous

Blair’s plea: Corbynmania is ‘Alice in Wonderland’ politics - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/29/tony-blair-corbynmania-alice-in-wonderland better than your "Poodle in Republicanland" politics