Wednesday, 11 November 2015

151111


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151110 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151110.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

Fears Over Trans-Pacific Partnership Confirmed - http://www.ituc-csi.org/fears-over-trans-pacific "risks jobs, public services and democratic rights" #TPP

Call to Action Against Global Corporate Domination: November 14-18 - http://www.flushthetpp.org/call-to-action-against-global-corporate-domination/ Stop #TPP, #TTIP, & #TiSA

Trade, Health, And Tobacco Exceptionalism: The #TPP Tobacco Carve-Out - http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/11/10/trade-health-and-tobacco-exceptionalism-the-tpp-tobacco-carve-out/ "uncertain whether the U.S. will exercise"

Researchers Record Chimpanzee Mother Caring For Her Disabled Child In The Wild - http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-record-chimpanzee-mother-caring-her-disabled-child-wild0 amazing

The #SnoopersCharter would devastate computer security research in the UK - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/the-snoopers-charter-would-devastate-computer-security-research-in-the-uk/ so how will that make us safer? #IPBill


#China’s #Alibaba sells $1 billion of goods in first 8 minutes of “Singles Day” promotion - http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/11/chinas-alibaba-sells-1-billion-of-goods-in-first-8-minutes-of-singles-day-promotion/ $10bn in first 14 hours

Leaving EU would be a 'disaster', British universities warn - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/11/leaving-eu-would-be-a-disaster-british-universities-warn certainly would #brexit

Happy? Sad? Angry? Microsoft tool recognizes emotions in pictures - https://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2015/11/11/happy-sad-angry-this-microsoft-tool-recognizes-emotions-in-pictures/ *no way* this could be abused in surveillance...

The Trade in Services Agreement (#TISA): An end to negotiations in sight? - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2015/570448/EXPO_IDA%282015%29570448_EN.pdf EP policy department study – v good


Earth-like world: 'most important found outside solar system' - http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/11/earth-like-world-gj1132b-could-be-most-important-planet-ever-found-outside-the-solar-system "close enough 4 telescopes 2 observe any atmosphere"

FBI's Top Lawyer Says Locking Law Enforcement Out Of Cellphones Is The Public's Choice To Make - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151108/20072732760/fbis-top-lawyer-says-locking-law-enforcement-out-cellphones-is-publics-choice-to-make.shtml Cameron disagrees

NSA Pats Self On Back For Disclosing Vulnerabilities '90% Of The Time,' Doesn't Specify How Long Uses Them Before - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151108/18345332759/nsa-pats-self-back-disclosing-vulner

#TPP vs tobacco control - the devil is in the details - http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/319167 good analysis of situation in #malaysia

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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151109 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151109.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

#TPP is about many things, but free trade? Not so much - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/tpp-is-about-many-things-but-free-trade-not-so-much/article27169740/ hugely important point

Protect our health, Stop Monsanto - https://secure.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_dont_silence_science_eu_rb2/ only independent science should be used for safety assessments

EU drops proposed law to tackle illegal trade in wildlife & toxic waste - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/10/eu-drops-proposed-law-to-tackle-illegal-trade-in-wildlife-and-toxic-waste UK's fault: sooner leaves EU, the better

MPAA: Online Privacy Hurts Anti-Piracy Enforcement - https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-online-privacy-hurts-anti-piracy-enforcement-151109/ because #copyright more important than human rights...

EU trade secrets directive threat to free speech, health, environment and worker mobility - https://xnet-x.net/en/trade-secrets-directive/ this is a serious threat

Facebook must stop tracking Belgian users within 48 hours, or be fined €250K per day - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/facebook-must-stop-tracking-belgian-users-within-48-hours-or-be-fined-e250k-per-day/ your move, #facebook

Martin Schulz receives 3.284.289 Stop #TTIP & #CETA signatures - https://www.facebook.com/eci.ttip/videos/vb.265378756998095/462480320621270/?type=2&theater makes a couple of commitments; will he follow thro?

UK Health Minister Filibusters Bill To Use Off-Patent Drugs 2 Provide Effective New Treatments At Low Cost - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151108/07224932753/uk-health-minister-filibusters-bill-to-use-off-patent-drugs-to-provide-effective-new-treatments-low-cost.shtml so why?

#TPP's #ISDS that lets Australia be sued are weapons of legal destruction, says lawyer - http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/10/tpps-clauses-that-let-australia-be-sued-are-weapons-of-legal-destruction-says-lawyer v clear explanation why

Donald trump: Obama’s #TPP is ‘insanity’ - http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/09/exclusive-donald-trump-obamas-trans-pacific-free-trade-deal-insanity/ “deal should not be supported and it should not be allowed to happen”

Marco Rubio distances himself from #TPP as ‘pillar’ of his presidency - http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/08/marco-rubio-tries-rewrite-history-obamatrade/ looks like everyone is abandoning it...

Warren steps up criticism of #TPP - https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/11/05/elizabeth-warren-criticizes-historic-pacific-rim-trade-deal/N4x0bcwFE6DweNhNcOe5sK/story.html "I’m going to do what I can to make sure Congress doesn’t approve it.”

HTTPS certificates with forbidden domains issued by “quite a few” CAs - http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2015/11/https-certificates-with-forbidden-domains-issued-by-quite-a-few-cas/ </facepalm>

#Renewable energy investment predicted to surge - http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/10/renewable-energy-investment-predicted-to-surge except in UK, of course, as Tories do utmost to sabotage sector


Monday, 9 November 2015

151109


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151108 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151108.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page 

Balsillie fears #TPP could cost #Canada billions and become worst-ever policy move - http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/jim-balsillie-tpp-1.3310179 interesting

London’s new Garden Bridge will track visitors with CCTV, phone Wi-Fi signals - http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/11/londons-new-garden-bridge-will-track-visitors-with-cctv-phone-wi-fi-signals/ are we losing our public spaces?

"reforms to the #ISDS process that the administration has been advertising did not materialize." - http://www.citizen.org/documents/analysis-tpp-investment-chapter-november-2015.pdf #TPP

What happened to passenger #hovercraft? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34658386 good question; such a nice way to travel.. #eels

Allowing scallop dredging in 'strictly protected' dolphin reserves is madness - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2015/nov/09/allowing-scallop-dredging-in-strictly-protected-dolphin-reserves-is-madness how stupid can the Welsh gov. get?

Consultation: Proposed Scallop Fishery in Cardigan Bay Dolphin Reserve
- http://gov.wales/consultations/environmentandcountryside/proposed-new-management-measures-for-the-scallop-fishery-in-cardigan-bay/?lang=en pl. participate - it's quick & v. easy

UK Trade Negotiations Stakeholder Survey November 2015 - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Trade_Negotiations_Stakeholder_Survey_November_2015

Pirate Party MEP Reda: EU Preparing 'Frontal Attack On The Hyperlink' - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151108/09093632754/pirate-party-mep-julia-reda-eu-preparing-frontal-attack-hyperlink.shtml time to say no to this #copyright stupidity

'Hundreds' Of Teens Found Sexting At Single School And Everyone Seems Unsure Of How To Proceed - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151107/21003132750/hundreds-teens-found-sexting-single-school-everyone-seems-unsure-how-to-proceed.shtml how about nothing?

The Three Industries That Love The #TPP: Hollywood, Big Pharma & Wall St. - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151109/07243932763/three-industries-that-love-tpp-hollywood-big-pharma-wall-st.shtml here's what that tells us loud & clear

UK set up secret group of top officials to enable UAE investment - http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/09/uk-secret-group-of-top-officials-enable-uae-investment-united-arab-emirates anything for money...

Bürgerinitiative: #TTIP-Gegner sammeln mehr als drei Millionen Unterschriften - http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/ttip-initiative-reicht-fast-3-3-millionen-unterschriften-ein-a-1061844.html impressive;@EU_Commission ignores

Earth to cross 1°C warming marker this year for the first time, Met Office says - http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/11/earth-to-cross-1c-warming-marker-this-year-for-the-first-time/ this is not good #climatechange

Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte um #TTIP und #TPP entbrannt - http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1764446/ #sustainability #antibiotics



Sunday, 8 November 2015

151108


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151107 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151107.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page lots #TPP links here

Section by Section Commentary on #TPP Final IP Chapter, Part 2 – #Copyright - http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=kimweatherall very detailed, very useful analysis

Anger drives hunt 4 'criminal' water guzzler during California drought - http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/08/drought-posse-los-angeles-water-guzzlers-bel-air-wet-prince if we have one, the future will be shocked


Theresa May’s threat to the privacy of reading - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/08/theresa-may-proposals-privacy-reading-draft-investigatory-powers-bill & why that is so corrosive for our freedom #IPBill

Is the free trade agreement worth the paper it's written on? - http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-letters/letters-tpp-worth-the-paper-its-written-on-20151108-gktjtr.html critical letters on #TPP in @smh


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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151106 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151106.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page lots #TPP links here

Public Health Association of Australia: #TPP – Final text shows cause for concern - http://www.phaa.net.au/documents/item/1104 "worryingly ambiguous & unclear"

#TPP Text Reveals Risk for Consumer Privacy Reform - https://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=5723 "Would Limit Options for Online Privacy Policies"

Make no mistake, this is a new Snooper's Charter, & it's worse than ever - https://privacyinternational.org/node/668 "mass surveillance by any other name..."


#NZ Group worries #TPP will 'criminalise' digital consumers - http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/289083/concern-tpp-could-'criminalise'-consumers rightly so


Saturday, 7 November 2015

151106


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151105 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151105.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page lots #TPP links here

Release of #TPP Full Text Shows Victory for Corporate Rights - http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15051 interview with Dr. Margaret Flowers

#TPP has been released and our concerns have been vindicated - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-06/tienhaara-ttp-investment/6918810 "TPP investment chapter is its lack of balance"


important initiative by Australian Broadcasting Corporation:  Trans-Pacific Partnership: Help analyse the #TPP - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-06/help-analyse-the-tpp/6920214

Civil Society Reacts to Finally-Released #TPP Text - http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/blog/2015/11/05/civil-society-reacts-to-finally-released-tpp-text/ dozens of US groups agree: it's a disaster for the public


#TTIP – what's in it for labour, environment & sustainable development? - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/malmstrom/blog/ttip-whats-it-labour-environment-and-sustainable-development_en little compared to huge corporate handouts

#TPP has provision banning requirements to transfer of or access to source code of software - http://keionline.org/node/2363 coders: time to fight

#TTIP : "il ne faut surtout pas négocier en secret." - http://info.arte.tv/fr/ttip-il-ne-faut-surtout-pas-negocier-en-secret


Will Molecular Biology's Most Important Discovery In Years Be Ruined By #Patents? - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151105/07245432728/will-molecular-biologys-most-important-discovery-years-be-ruined-patents.shtml (warning: may be rhetorical qn)

Switzerland’s largest city declares “#Tisa-Free Zone” - http://www.world-psi.org/en/switzerlands-largest-city-declares-tisa-free-zone the first of many, let us hope


Geheimes #CETA-Mandat geleakt! - http://www.mehr-demokratie.de/ceta-leak.html interesting information about old-ish dox #ISDS

British public eager for energy efficiency, renewables subsidies - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/energy/british-public-eager-energy-efficiency-and-renewables-subsidies-319252 we are, we are


#TPP Development Chapter Shall Not “Prevail” Over Any Other Chapter - http://infojustice.org/archives/35283 wow, doesn't that just say it all?

Critic: #TPP deal has ‘exclusions up the wazoo’ - http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/trade-tpp-exceptions-215582 "limits on foreign circuses in Peru"

"Hatch said #Australia had been "greedy" in leading resistance to longer monopoly period" - http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/06/us-trade-tpp-hatch-idUSKCN0SV1XV20151106 *not* #BigPharma... #TPP

Full Text Of #TPP Released: And It's Really, Really Bad - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151106/07051932731/full-text-tpp-released-really-really-bad.shtml @mmasnick explains why #ISDS

Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline in victory for environmental activists - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/06/obama-rejects-keystone-xl-pipeline but will companies use #NAFTA's #ISDS?

After Text Release, Environmental Groups Speak Out on TPP - http://www.sierraclub.org/tpp-text-release-enviros no doubt about their views: #TPP is toxic

UK Home Secretary Says Don't Worry About Collection Of Metadata; FOIA Request Made For Her Metadata - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151106/07380432733/uk-home-secretary-says-dont-worry-about-collection-metadata-foia-request-made-her-metadata.shtml ha! Nice

TPP = Transnational Pharmaceutical Profiteering – Big Pharma’s Monopolies Strengthen and Multiply in #TPP - http://infojustice.org/archives/35307




Friday, 6 November 2015

151105


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 151104 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.com/2015/11/151104_4.html  yesterday's tweets as a single page

Trans-Pacific Partnership (#TPP) text finally available - http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-International-Law/01-Treaties-for-which-NZ-is-Depositary/0-Trans-Pacific-Partnership.php spread the word; everyone get reading and digging

Snooper’s Charter: Web browsing history stored for a year, no bans on encryption - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/snoopers-charter-web-browsing-history-stored-for-a-year-no-bans-on-encryption/ mass surveillance legalised

Despite assurances to contrary, intellectual property covered asset for #TPP #ISDS mechanism - http://keionline.org/node/2358 will be a disaster

Why US Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market - http://inthesetimes.com/article/18504/epa_government_scientists_and_chemical_industry_links_influence_regulations why we must defend Precautionary Principle against #TTIP

Sierra Club: #TPP Text is “Concrete Evidence” of Toxic Deal - http://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2015/11/sierra-club-tpp-text-concrete-evidence-toxic-deal & they can prove it...

Japan, five #TPP partners agree to review terms after seven years - http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/11/05/business/japan-five-tpp-partners-agree-review-terms-seven-years/ aka "living agreement"

#TPP Text Analysis: The TPP Would Increase Risks to Our Air, Water, and Climate - https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/INITIAL%20ANALYSIS%20-%20ENVIRO%20IMPLICATIONS%20TPP.pdf important stuff: pl. circulate

MI5 carried out secret mass #surveillance for a decade; GCHQ still denies doing the same - http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/11/mi5-carried-out-secret-mass-surveillance-for-a-decade-gchq-still-denies-doing-the-same/ "Turing did it, too..."

These internet surveillance powers risk undermining the judiciary - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/04/internet-surveillance-judiciary-theresa-may-web-browsing interesting, important point #IPBill

Surveillance bill triggers alarm over sweeping powers for spies - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/broad-support-gives-way-to-alarm-over-mays-surveillance-bill beyond May's marketing, reality is ugly #IPBill

#TPP Text Analysis: Environment Chapter Fails to Protect Environment - https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/TPPanalysis.pdf detailed analysis of the Great TPP Betrayal

hardworking families of the AFL-CIO will join with our allies to defeat the #TPP = http://www.aflcio.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/AFL-CIO-on-Administration-Releasing-Text-of-TPP-Deal

Ten Years After the Defeat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) - http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/173379 7 here comes #TPP

Secret #TPP Text Unveiled: It’s Worse than We Thought - https://www.citizen.org/documents/analysis-tpp-text-november-2015.pdf initial 16-page analysis


#TPP on registration of drugs, bans requirements to disclose or consider certain financial or pricing data - http://keionline.org/node/2362

Only 'tiny handful' of ministers knew of mass surveillance, Clegg reveals - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/05/nick-clegg-cabinet-mass-surveillance-british-spying the UK is clearly no longer a democracy


CPATH: #TPP Caves to the Tobacco Industry, Threatens Public Health - http://www.cpath.org/ good analysis why tobacco "carve-out" useless

RT @Maybarduk:"Our intern Yujiao Tsai counted up all the chapters, annexes, NCMs, etc. She reports that the #TPP is 6,194 pages long."

#TPP Trade Agreement Slammed For Eroding Online Rights - http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/05/tpp-vs-privacy/ & much else

As US Promotes #TPP As A Way To Improve Labor Standards, Guatemala Shows Failed Promises Of Previous Trade Deals - http://www.ibtimes.com/us-promotes-tpp-way-improve-labor-standards-guatemala-shows-failed-promises-previous-2171795

We made President Obama’s big #TPP trade deal searchable - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/05/we-made-president-obamas-big-tpp-trade-deal-searchable/?postshare=5371446749920151 great work - well done,@washingtonpost. pl. pass on

Statement by MSF on the Official Release of the Full Text of #TPP - http://msfaccess.org/www.msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/statement-msf-release-full-text-tpp# "MSF remains gravely concerned"

Canada to review Pacific trade pact, seek public input: minister - http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/05/trade-tpp-canada-politics-idUSL1N1302SJ20151105 great: sharpen your digital pencils... #TPP

#TPP Text Reveals Risk for Consumer Privacy Reform - https://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredirect.cfm?ID=5723 #TPP is a ratchet: less public interest, more corporate power