Tuesday 22 April 2014

140422


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140421 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/140421.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Trade Agreements: Human Rights For Sale - http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2014/04/22/trade-and-investment-agreements-human-rights-for-sale/ "regulatory coherence demanded by investors to secure corporate dominance"

Mining 4 Profits in International Tribunals - http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/mining_for_profits_update2013 using #ISDS to extract huge sums from poor countries (v @DrRimmer)#TPP


Can you put a price on the beauty of the natural world? - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/22/price-natural-world-agenda-ignores-destroys good debunking of #Paterson's "offsetting" idiocy

NY Times Changes Its Tune On #TPP; Highlights Cronyism, Lack Of Transparency As Problems - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140421/13592426980/ny-times-changes-its-tune-tpp-highlights-cronyism-lack-transparency-as-problems.shtml finally getting there

German Politicians Hit Back At USTR Criticisms Of European Cloud Idea - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140417/03092626940/german-politicians-hit-back-ustr-criticisms-european-cloud-idea.shtml not happy bunnies #tip #de

.@PepsiCo : buy responsible, rainforest-friendly palm oil. - http://action.sumofus.org/a/pepsico-palm-oil/ "Pepsico buys staggering amounts of conflict palm oil"

Why Economist Thomas Piketty Has Scared the Pants Off the American Right - http://www.alternet.org/economy/why-economist-thomas-piketty-has-scared-pants-american-right they can't cope with facts #inequality

All FTA talks shelved over service pact protests: Taiwan minister - http://www.bilaterals.org/?all-fta-talks-shelved-over-service http://www.bilaterals.org/?all-fta-talks-shelved-over-service interesting #china

#Xiaomi simplifies its Web domain to Mi.com to appeal to international audience - http://thenextweb.com/asia/2014/04/22/xiaomi-simplifies-web-domain-mi-com-appeal-international-audience/ it's coming #china

Conservationists and marksmen of #Malta battle over annual bird hunt - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/20/conservationists-marksmen-malta-bird-hunt good to see at last

Cameron's office calls police on food bank campaigners Bishop of Oxford and Reverend Keith Hebden - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-camerons-constituency-office-calls-police-on-food-bank-campaigners-bishop-of-oxford-and-reverend-keith-hebden-9274303.html ah, Christianity

#ISDS threatens El Salvador’s development - http://www.bilaterals.org/?world-bank-tribunal-threatens-el company only wants 2% of GDP as compensation for "lost future profits"

Der neueste Unsicherheitsstandard der #NSA - http://fm4.orf.at/stories/1737330/ just outrageous...

Lytro’s new $1,599 ‘Illum’ camera could kickstart light-field photography - http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2014/04/22/lytro-unveils-illum-1599-light-field-camera-reinvent-photography/ this is just the start, I'm sure

#Mesh Networks Won’t Fix Internet Security - https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/mesh-networks-wont-fix-internet-security/ important point about useful technology

Record Labels: Used MP3s Too Good and Convenient to Resell - http://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-used-mp3s-too-good-and-convenient-to-resell-140422/ whining as usual about improvements in tech

#Poverty has been rebranded as personal failure - http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/22/disability-poverty-crisis-government-policies just as it was in US, now in UK #shameful

Clapper Bans Intelligence Community From Basically Any Interaction With Nearly Anyone With A Social Media Account - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140421/07442126978/james-clapper-bans-intelligence-community-employees-basically-any-interaction-with-anyone-with-social-media-account.shtml

"The rebalance risks alienating China, yet leaving its neighbours, America’s friends, more nervous than ever." - http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21601031-barack-obama-bound-disappoint-his-forthcoming-trip-asia-tricky-rebalancing-act?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/trickyrebalancing #TPP

The supreme court case that will decide the future of television - http://politix.topix.com/story/11648-the-supreme-court-case-that-will-decide-the-future-of-television important for innovation in US too


Stop the #TPP Secrecy before it’s too late - https://stopthesecrecy.net/ new campaign for transparency

.@DeutscheBank clashes with NGOs over food speculation - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/development-policy/deutsche-bank-clashes-ngos-over-food-speculation-301681 unacceptable face of capitalism


How the revolving door lets Hollywood shape Obama's trade agenda - http://www.vox.com/2014/4/22/5636466/hollywood-just-hired-another-white-house-trade-official blatant but important to call out (v @jamie_love)

Revolving Door: MPAA Hires Chief USTR Negotiator Behind ACTA And #TPP's IP Chapter - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140422/06011926988/revolving-door-mpaa-hires-chief-ustr-negotiator-behind-acta-tpps-ip-chapter.shtml here it is again...

Shakespeare's Beehive: analysis of newly discovered dictionary that Shakespeare owned & annotated - http://boingboing.net/2014/04/22/shakespeares-beehive-analys.html wonderful if true

Copyright Maximalists' Incredible Sense Of Entitlement: If It Challenges The Biz Model We Chose, It Must Be Illegal - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140422/05394826987/copyright-maximalists-incredible-sense-entitlement-if-it-challenges-biz-model-we-chose-it-must-be-illegal.shtml

New Obama Administration Report Targets #TPP Public Interest Policies as “Trade Barriers” to be Eliminated - http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2014/04/new-obama-administration-report-targets-tpp-countries-public-interest-policies-as-trade-barriers-to-.html shameful

Citizen’s Trade Campaign – #ISDS Strategy Conversations / Focus on the #TTIP - http://justinvestment.org/2014/04/njgi-interview-with-arthur-stamoulis-of-the-citizens-trade-campaign-isds-strategy-conversations-focus-on-the-ttip/ interesting US perspective


.@HBO Demands Takedown of Game of Thrones Screenshots - http://torrentfreak.com/hbo-demands-takedown-of-game-of-thrones-screenshots-140422/ ah, yes: though ancient, the stupid, it burns...

Stop the #TPP Secrecy before it’s too late - https://openmedia.org/stop-secrecy-action-page hurtling rapidly towards 3,000,000 signatures. yours too?

Intellectual Ventures Big Case Shut Down By Judge Over Completely Bogus Patents - http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140421/07070326977/intellectual-ventures-big-case-shut-down-judge-over-completely-bogus-patents.shtml take that, troll...


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