150219

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 150218 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2015/02/150218.html yesterday's tweets as a single page

Protesters greet John Key in Oxford, Canterbury - http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/66385105/Protesters-greet-John-Key-in-Oxford-Canterbury good, more needed #TPP

Tell MPs to Ban Wild Animals in UK Circuses! - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/235/021/877/mps-stop-blocking-a-new-law-to-ban-wild-animals-in-uk-circuses/ shameful this is still around

My Own Life - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/my-own-life.html?_r=1 typically wise & warm writing from Oliver Sacks about his terminal cancer (v @vaughanbell @edyong209)

Never mind Putin -#fracking and #TTIP will make idiots of us all - http://www.martinwhitlock.co.uk/2015/02/never-mind-putin-fracking-and-ttip-will.html "contagion of inequality is taking hold in Europe"

delusional EU/US politicians assert "without supplying hard evidence" Putin is funding NGOs against #TTIP - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/16/russian-resurgence-how-the-kremlin-is-making-its-presence-felt-across-europe pathetic

ACV-CSC, Belgium Trade Union Confederation with 1.7 Million Members has decided to join Stop #TTIP - http://www.cncd.be/-stop-ttip- now at 1,459,361

Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections - http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/ here are the details; awful

EU's Baltic fishing plan is a first step, but with serious flaws - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/agriculture-food/eus-baltic-fishing-plan-first-step-serious-flaws-312238 let's fix them

Minister's claims that solar panels harm UK food security are false - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/17/ministers-claims-that-solar-panels-harm-uk-food-security-are-false perhaps she should resign...

Moving Forward with Firefox - https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/02/18/moving-forward-with-firefox/ an update from #mozilla

Buying pricey drugs harms more UK lives than it saves - http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530093.800-buying-pricey-drugs-harms-more-uk-lives-than-it-saves.html #TPP and #TTIP likely to make this worse #pharma

EU votes to use secret evidence in court as UK intelligence branded flawed - http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2015/02/19/eu-votes-secret-evidence-court-uk-intelligence-flawed/ more bad moves...

Announcing the Open Data Day Coalition micro-grantees - http://blog.okfn.org/2015/02/19/announcing-the-open-data-day-coalition-micro-grantees/ nice

Can SUEPO sue #EPO? It now seems so ... - http://ipkitten.blogspot.nl/2015/02/can-suepo-sue-epo-it-now-seems-so.html worth noting

If You Care About The Environment In Canada, You May Be Targeted As An 'Anti-Petroleum Extremist' - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150218/02330930064/if-you-care-about-environment-canada-you-may-be-targeted-as-anti-petroleum-extremist.shtml O #Canada...

#TTIP under pressure from protestors as EU promises #ISDS safeguards - http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/19/ttip-brussels-cecilia-malmstrom-eu-trade-us-nhs folly: you don't fix something you don't need

"role of the global market for jobs that has persuaded some campaigners 2 demand that #TTIP be thrown out altogether" http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/19/ttip-brussels-cecilia-malmstrom-eu-trade-us-nhs

"When signature from all heads of state, including outgoing US president, must be inked by next spring, #TTIP may be on life-support."

.@EMA_News is quite simply a disgrace: whose side are they on? not the European public's, it would seem - http://haieurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/PR-EMA-steers-away-from-transparency.pdf

Holder Says Putting Reporter James Risen Through Hell Is A Good 'Example' Of DOJ Process For Leak Investigations - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150218/17531730067/eric-holder-says-putting-reporter-james-risen-through-hell-is-good-example-doj-process-leak-investigations.shtml

Lenovo In Denial: Insists There's No Security Problem With Superfish -- Which Is Very, Very Wrong - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150219/10124430071/big-lenono-lenovo-massively-compromises-customers-security-brushes-it-off-as-no-biggie.shtml @lenovo clueless

Jetzt den Widerstand gegen #TTIP und #CETA weiter stärken! - http://www.mehr-demokratie.de/md-info_2015-02.html "gegen den Ausverkauf von Demokratie und Rechtsstaat"

The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to Encryption Castle - https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/ " game over for cellular encryption" #gchq #nsa

the more we learn about #NSA/#GCHQ exploits, the more I'm amazed at how little they've been able to do with them in fighting crime

Time Warner Cable calls customer “C**t” after she reports cable box problem - http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/time-warner-cable-calls-customer-ct-after-she-reports-cable-box-problem/ spectacular fail