151118

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151117 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151117.html … yesterday's tweets as a single page

Walmart’s $10 Smartphone: Better Specs Than Original iPhone - http://motherboard.vice.com/read/walmarts-10-smartphone-has-better-specs-than-the-original-iphone as some of us predicted years ago (v @charlesarthur)

.@Ansip_EU:"We intend to set out our plans for reforming copyright" - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/ansip/blog/getting-digital-single-market-ground-next-steps-forward_en hope doesn't include attack on #hyperlinks

Journalists investigating EU funds theft threatened - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/justice-home-affairs/journalists-investigating-eu-funds-largest-single-theft-ever worrying

Campaigners that exposed VW point finger at Lufthansa, British Airways - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/transport/campaigners-exposed-vw-point-finger-lufthansa-british-airways-319567 completely unacceptable

Trusting corporations to be responsible: A failed EU experiment - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/trade-society/trusting-corporations-be-responsible-failed-eu-experiment-319459 & yet #TTIP would give them even more power

Online Resources: Beowulf and #Hittite - http://languagehat.com/online-resources-beowulf-and-hittite/ v cool stuff #linguistics #oldenglish

EU moves step closer to ban on deep-sea trawler fishing - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/climate-environment/eu-moves-step-closer-ban-deep-sea-trawler-fishing-319420 urgently needed

Swedish Pirates are More Likely to Buy Legal Content - https://torrentfreak.com/swedish-pirates-are-more-likely-to-buy-legal-content-151112/ yet more evidence of this correlation

Small Businesses Start To Campaign Against TTIP - http://threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org/?p=822 important rebuttal to claims of widespread SME support for #TTIP

Elsevier Says Downloading & Content-Mining Licensed Copies Of Research Papers 'Could Be Considered' Stealing - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151117/09383132839/elsevier-says-downloading-content-mining-licensed-copies-research-papers-could-be-considered-stealing.shtml #TDM

UK cops allegedly snooped on journalists to hunt down police whistleblower - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/uk-cops-allegedly-snooped-on-journalists-to-hunt-down-police-whistleblower/ surveillance easily abused #IPBill

I’m a nuclear armageddon survivor: Ask me anything - http://arstechnica.co.uk/the-multiverse/2015/11/im-a-nuclear-armageddon-survivor-ask-me-anything/ great piece

“They are unstoppable in catastrophic fire conditions" - http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/nov/18/western-australia-bushfire-victims-mourned-after-day-from-hell #AU

2015 shatters temperature record as global warming speeds back up - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/18/2015-shatters-the-temperature-record-as-global-warming-speeds-back-up explains why climate denialists are drying up

Britons likely to be worst hit by demands 4 more rigorous border controls after Paris attacks - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/eu-travellers-tighter-id-checks-french-clampdown-borders-paris-attacks now imagine #brexit

#TPP signing likely to be in #NZ - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11547681 after all, who cares what the public thinks?

Obama's drone war 'recruitment tool' for Isis, say US air force #whistleblowers - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/obama-drone-war-isis-recruitment-tool-air-force-whistleblowers great to see more stepping forward

New Analysis of #TPP Financial Services Chapter: Fails to Remedy Past Pacts’ Deregulatory Terms - https://www.citizen.org/documents/analysis-tpp-financial-services-chapter-november-2015.pdf

Former Mexican president says country will legalise all drugs within a decade - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/former-president-vicente-fox-mexico-legalise-all-drugs-10-years it's the only way out... #mx

House Democrats call #TPP 'too big' to pass Congress - http://g.thehill.com/policy/finance/260645-house-democrats-call-tpp-too-big-to-pass-congress "Pocan contended that there is growing opposition"

151117

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151116 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151116.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

#TTIP, #TPP, #CETA, #TiSA What impact will they have on Democracy & sustainable development ? - http://www.guengl.eu/news/article/events/ttip-tpp-ceta-tisa-or-democracy-and-sustainable-development live now...

I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/16/isis-bombs-hostage-syria-islamic-state-paris-attacks useful comments from someone who knows

#TPP Says Food Health Policies Must Be 'Science-Based,' Except When Would Harm Profits - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151114/03255332817/tpp-says-food-health-policies-must-be-science-based-except-when-that-would-harm-profits.shtml will this be in #TTIP too?

Despite what the papers say, there’s no evidence ISIS used PS4 to plan Paris attacks - http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2015/11/despite-what-the-papers-say-theres-no-evidence-isis-used-ps4-to-plan-paris-attacks/ quite; these are the facts

Obama’s trade deal is in trouble - http://thehill.com/policy/international/trade/260364-obamas-trade-deal-is-in-trouble "Republicans are deeply disappointed with the deal " #TPP

Pediatricians say farm use of antibiotics harms children - http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/11/pediatricians-say-farm-use-of-antibiotics-harms-children/ huge issue; insane

Democracy denied: How the Commission keeps people out of lawmaking - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/science-policymaking/democracy-denied-how-commission-keeps-people-out-lawmaking-319444 #TTIP is a big part of this move

How can Philip Morris sue Uruguay over its tobacco laws? - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/16/philip-morris-uruguay-tobacco-isds-human-rights sprinkle that #ISDS magic, & anything is possible

ITC Predicts #TPP Economic Assessment Will Not Be Ready Until May 18 - http://myinforms.com/en/a/19308334-itc-predicts-tpp-economic-assessment-will-not-be-ready-until-may-18/ important if confirmed...

Hundreds of thousands of Texas women attempted self-induced abortion – study - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/17/texas-women-self-induced-abortions-study awful - & completely predictable

151116

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151115 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151115.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

Germany says it will (mostly) stop spying on EU citizens and institutions - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/germany-says-it-will-mostly-stop-spying-on-eu-citizens-and-institutions/ as UK ramps up powers to spy on everyone

#SafeHarbour 2.0 framework begins to capsize as January deadline nears - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/safe-harbour-2-0-framework-begins-to-capsize-as-january-deadline-nears/ <insert alternative metaphor here>

As Predicted: Encryption Haters Are Already Blaming Snowden (?!?) For The Paris Attacks - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151115/23360632822/as-predicted-encryption-haters-are-already-blaming-snowden-paris-attacks.shtml #crypto

Another exoplanet weather report: 8,500 km/h winds - http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/11/another-exoplanet-weather-report-8500-kmhour-winds/ this is very clever science

Pure Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation Trying To Pretend Her Father Wrote Her Diary... To Extend Its #Copyright - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151114/00374832816/legal-fight-brewing-over-who-is-author-diary-anne-frank-thanks-to-copyright.shtml

Italian court rules modchips are primarily used to play pirated games - http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2015/11/italian-court-rules-modchips-are-primarily-used-to-play-pirated-games/ #it

Gates Foundation would be $1.9bn better off if it had divested from fossil fuels - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/16/gates-foundation-divested-fossil-fuels-would-be-19bn-better-off so much for his supposed acumen

Scientist Bans Use Of His Software By 'Immigrant-Friendly' Countries, So Journal Retracts Paper About His Software - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151113/04243532806/scientist-bans-use-his-software-immigrant-friendly-countries-so-journal-retracts-paper-about-his-software.shtml

Pathological: Surveillance State Defenders Use Their Own Failure In Paris To Justify Mass Surveillance - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151116/10582132824/pathological-surveillance-state-defenders-use-their-own-failure-paris-to-justify-mass-surveillance.shtml

#TPP: An Assessment of Commitments and Trade Agreement Enforcement - http://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/TPP-Enforcement-Analysis-Nov2015.pdf  "will detrimentally affect the environment"

"biggest prob. not shortage of information about suspects but lack of capacity 2 process that information" - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/french-and-belgian-intelligence-knew-paris-attackers-had-jihadi-backgrounds #Paris

as last tweet reinforces, the last thing intelligence services need is more info: adding "hay" to the stack just makes things worse...

Biologists race to save fish from Brazil river contaminated by dam collapse - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/biologists-relocate-fish-brazil-river-dam-collapse time 4 enormous fines on @bhpbilliton

Wikileaks has made full text of #TPP searchable including annexes - https://www.wikileaks.org/tpp-final/

After Paris Attacks, Here’s What the CIA Director Gets Wrong About Encryption - http://www.wired.com/2015/11/paris-attacks-cia-director-john-brennan-what-he-gets-wrong-about-encryption-backdoors/ last quote from this piece

151115

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151114 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151114.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

here' s official info on the Belgian #facebook situation: https://www.privacycommission.be/en/news/judgment-facebook-case and more here http://www.lesoir.be/1-481/article/debats/11h02/2015-11-10/facebook-une-premiere-condamnation-inedite-et-importante

151114

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151113 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151113.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

Flush the #TPP - http://www.flushthetpp.org/fallrising/ Schedule for November 14 -18; Mobilization good to see people organising here

Massive Turnout of Kiwis say ‘#TPP: Don’t Sign’ - http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/11/14/massive-turnout-of-kiwis-say-tppa-dont-sign/ "it’s becoming clear that  deal as is bad as we’ve been expecting"

We asked young Afghan seeking a new life in Europe to take pictures of journey from Turkey to Switzerland. - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/a-nine-country-scramble-to-freedom-through-the-eyes-of-a-refugee/article27236026/ amazing

Leval On Fair Use And Google Books: A Sketch Of A Story - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151113/15302832814/leval-fair-use-google-books-sketch-story.shtml great report of what sounds a fascinating lecture

Thomas Piketty calls for investors to divest from fossil fuels ahead of climate talks - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/14/thomas-piketty-economist-investors-divest-fossil-fuels-ahead-climate-talks #COP21

151113

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151112 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151112.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

Germany protests to US on lack of transparency in #TTIP trade talks - https://euobserver.com/foreign/131099

FCC: We aren’t banning DD-WRT on Wi-Fi routers - http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/11/fcc-we-arent-banning-dd-wrt-on-wi-fi-routers/ well, that's good

Obama Faces a Tough Road with #TPP Trade Deal - http://fortune.com/2015/11/12/barack-obama-tpp-trade-deal/

"A Very Big Mistake": Stiglitz Slams Obama for #TPP - http://www.democracynow.org/2015/11/12/a_very_big_mistake_joseph_stiglitz "this is about who makes the rules of trade" people, or corps?

Meet the architect who wants to return Mexico City to its ancient lakes - http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/13/alberto-kalach-return-mexico-city-ancient-lakes fab idea

Utah Senator, Crucial Ally for the Pacific Rim Trade Deal, Is Now Its Main Hurdle - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/us/politics/utah-senator-crucial-ally-for-the-pacific-rim-trade-deal-is-now-its-main-hurdle.html interesting #TPP

Stop the firest and save #Indonesia's forests - https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/s/stop-palm-oil-forest-fires truly, a crime against humanity

'Tyranny has gone': Kurds and Yazidis celebrate recapture of Sinjar from Isis - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/13/tyranny-has-gone-kurds-and-yazidis-celebrate-recapture-of-sinjar-from-isis hope it's the start of ISIS collapse

Brazil's slow-motion environmental catastrophe unfolds - http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/13/brazils-slow-motion-environmental-catastrophe-unfolds these companies just don't care #BHPBilliton

Letter to Prime Minister and Ministers re: Access to medicines & #TPP - http://www.aidslaw.ca/site/letter-to-pm-and-mps-re-access-to-meds-tpp/ #CA

151112

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151111 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151111.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

#TPP text summaries on corporate rights, medicines, environment, labour and more - http://aftinet.org.au/cms/node/1040 from @AFTINET

UK becomes only G7 country to increase fossil fuel subsidies - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/12/uk-breaks-pledge-to-become-only-g7-country-increase-fossil-fuel-subsidies shame on #tories

Microsoft is building data centres in Germany that the US government can’t touch - http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/11/microsoft-is-building-data-centres-in-germany-that-the-us-government-cant-touch/ clever move #cloudcomputing

ISPs say the “massive cost” of #SnoopersCharter will push up UK broadband bills - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/isps-say-the-massive-cost-of-snoopers-charter-will-push-up-uk-broadband-bills/ will also wreck UK sw industry..

EU Commission #ISDS proposal attacked by MEPs and campaigners - https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/news/eu-commission-ttip-proposal-attacked-meps-and-campaigners "putting lipstick on a particularly unpopular pig."

Neue TiSA-Dokumente: Protokolle der Lobby-Treffen seit 2012 - https://netzpolitik.org/2015/neue-tisa-dokumente-protokolle-der-lobby-treffen-seit-2012/ shining a little sunlight on #TISA

US State legislators ‘shocked’ by EU trade deal implications - http://ttip2015.eu/blog-detail/blog/TTIP%20US%20State%20legislators.html people are beginning to wake up to #TTIP

Have your say on Freedom of Information - https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/surveys/214 easy way to fill in UK FOI consultation - takes 10 minutes

Head Of House Judiciary Committee Dines With MPAA, Joins Their Fundraiser, Following LA Copyright Hearing - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151112/07202632800/head-house-judiciary-committee-dines-with-mpaa-following-la-copyright-hearing.shtml

"Economic feasibility” provides #TPP members with a crucial loophole against SPS measures that are science-based" http://www.iatp.org/documents/the-tpp-sps-chapter-not-a-%E2%80%9Cmodel-for-the-rest-of-the-world%E2%80%9D

last tweet shows that much-ballyhooed "science-based" standards thrown over by profit considerations; true for #TPP, also for #TTIP?