No mention of authorisation limits ($200k is >RMB1 mio) of those involved within the accused PRC company to determine "need to know", and thus culpability?🤔 #justice

#HighCourt upholds acquittal of #Chinese company accused of #bribing ex- #LTA 🇸🇬 dy gp director
"Xi & Zhou were arrested in 2019 by #CPIB. Aft being released on bail, they absconded to #China, where they were arrested & subsequently #convicted by a Guangzhou court.. China Railway Tunnel Group has 24 branches"
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/high-court-upholds-acquittal-of-chinese-company-accused-of-bribing-ex-lta-deputy-group-director

#ICYMI #DJT administration eased enforcement of #law banning US firms from #bribing foreigners into biz deals.

Basically #Drumpf has lifted enforcement of the Foreign #Corrupt Practices Act because not cheating hurts his idea of #MAGA competitiveness...

Link to Wall Street Journal article https://evnt.bz/4jWtgES via #WSJ

#ICYMI #DJT administration eased enforcement of #law banning US firms from #bribing foreigners into biz deals.

Basically #Drumpf has lifted enforcement of the Foreign #Corrupt Practices Act because it hurts American competitiveness...

Link to Wall Street Journal article https://evnt.bz/4jWtgES via #WSJ

#USA #Politics #Elections #Musk #Bribing #SwingStates: "“Elon Musk says on stage at a town hall that America PAC will be awarding $1 million every day until the election to a registered Pennsylvania voter who has signed his petition. Musk awarded the first $1 million this evening to someone at the town hall, bringing the guy onto the stage and handing him a jumbo check, lotto-style. Musk is essentially incentivizing likely Trump voters in PA to register to vote: Petition is to support for 1A and 2A, so basically R voters. But they also have to be registered to vote, so if they weren’t already, they would do it now.”

Though maybe some of the other things Musk was doing were of murky legality, this one is clearly illegal. See 52 U.S.C. 10307(c): “Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both…” (Emphasis added.)"
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=146397

#Trump is now #bribing #voters and buying #votes in #Pennsylvania. He went into a #groceryStore with a camera crew and made a big show of giving a woman $100 at the register for her grocery purchase. He immediately followed that by claiming he'd be doing more of that from the #WhiteHouse. Is this even legal??

#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpBribes #electionInterference #voteBuying #TrumpIsAFelon #FeloniousTrump #TrumpIsAFascist #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13883893/donald-trump-pennsylvania-rally-mom-grocery-store.html

Whichever shithead at #Telegram thought it's a good idea to trick users into breaching their #Telco's #ToS by reselling #SMS quotas should be forced to stay in #jail until they can DIY an #offgrid comms device without #bribing or smuggling-in #contraband...

• This is worse than anything @signalapp ever did, because whilst they too demand #PII like #PhoneNumbers for which they have no legitimate interest in, at least they didn't offload insecure at any scenario SMS-based #2FA onto users' devices...

Seriously, all #centralized #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider messengers are garbage. but @telegram are just the worst that isn't a flatout front for cops like #WhatsApp, #WeChat and #QQ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k2irFpXrcI&t=15s

#Thousands Sign #Petition #Rebuking #Republican '#Hijacking of #Jesus'

#FaithfulAmerica's #petition accused #Florida of "#bribing #publicschool #teachers to #indoctrinating #students in the tenets of #ChristianNationalism (#Fascism)

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #Hypocrisy #RepublicanParty #Grooming #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-sign-christian-petition-rebuking-republican-hijacking-jesus-1910195

⬆️ @molly0xfff

It is impossible for me to become president of #US without #gerrymandering & other #voterSuppression measures to get enough votes in #ElectoralCollege, popular vote be damned

It is impossible for me to win without falsely alleging #ElectionFraud, filing frivolous #lawsuits, #bribing & #threatening state #legislatures & #judiciaries, filing #fakeElectors, & throwing my #VP to #insurrectionist wolves in #ProudBoys & #OathKeepers.

Therefore, I should be allowed to run again

#Trump

#ClimateLegal [3]
#Climate #ClimateProtest #ClimateEmergency

(Climate) protesting is becoming more difficult every day.
Never mind freedom of speech or cumbersome things like that...

Now #BigOil US is investing in curtailing it even more.
By PROTECTING 🥵 #BigOil from those pesky protesters.
In the way they're used to do it effectively: by #Bribing politics.

"60% of US Oil and Gas Infrastructure Now Protected by Anti-Protest Laws: Greenpeace"
Quote:
Fossil fuel companies have contributed millions of dollars to legislators who sponsored such laws, according to a new report.
by Olivia Rosane for Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/news/greenpeace-anti-protest-laws

More qoutes:
"The oil, gas, and coal industry has financed the spread of these laws: Nine of the top 10 lobbyists for these bills from 2017 to 2023 were Marathon, ExxonMobil, Enbridge, TC Energy, Koch Industries, Chevron, Energy Transfer, Williams Companies, and Valero. In addition, 25 fossil fuel companies gave $5 billion to lawmakers pushing these laws, with the top five donors being Duke Energy, Dominion Energy, Marathon Petroleum, BNSF Railway Co., and Koch Industries."
"Pushing anti-protest laws isn't the only way that the fossil fuel industry has tried to stifle protest. It also relies on a tactic known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP). Almost three-quarters of the 116 SLAPP lawsuits filed since 2010 came from companies that also supported anti-protest laws, among them Energy Transfer, ExxonMobil, Murray Energy Corporation, Chevron, and TransCanada."

#Myanmar: #Junta recruits #teen #soldiers in Myanmar’s delta: Soldiers are pressuring and #bribing locals to attend military training. | RFA Burmese/Radio Free Asia https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/junta-forced-recruit-teen-soldiers-10182023071838.html #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #ChildSoldiers

US politicians are less likely to vote for something if they haven’t been bribed. No, sorry, not bribed. The other one, the legal one… LOBBIED! Less like to vote for something if they haven’t been lobbied.

#USA #politics #politicians #voting #bribing #lobbying #qi #notqi

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan won a 2018 #conviction against an associate of #Luft. Patrick Ho, the head of the NGO backed by the Chinese oil conglomerate, had been charged w/ #bribing ofcls in 2 African countries in hopes of gaining a business advantage for the energy company. He was #sentenced to 3 years in #prison.

#RepublicanIneptitude
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gal-luft-indictment-china-hunter-biden-investigation-8a8560c7

Donations buying policy ? Protection racket ? #Lobbying ? #bribing ? #auspol

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SlQwDtiy1Dg

#Billionaires pour money into political parties in #australia , donations data reveals #auspol #lobbying #bribing #ThisIsNotDemocracy

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/billionaires-pour-money-into-political-parties-donations-data-reveals-20230201-p5ch0j.html

@CarringBush2020 don't f#ck with #gambling industry, Australia's most powerful #lobby (#bribing) group #nswpol #NSWVotes2023 #nswvotes #Mafia

"I trust the #Australian #government to protect me from #scams."

You know that;
- #Medibank still goes through #Amazon?,
- Australia's federal police (afp.gov.au) goes through #CloudFlare?,
- according to govt, "#FacebookReFriendedAustralia" by openly #bribing our media?,
- Social services (humanservices.gov.au) goes through #Akamai?
- Govt multiplied the #moneySupply by approx six times during #covid, mostly benefitting the most wealthy?

Lol

#auspol #AFP #socialServices

#Corruption :#Glencore admitted #bribing officials in several #African nations.It also admitted to paying millions 💰 in #bribes to officials in #Cameroon, #EquatorialGuinea, #IvoryCoast, #Nigeria, #SouthSudan, #Brazil and #Venezuela. Despite the #fines Glencore is expected to make record #profits of around $3.2bn this year https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63858295

@seankearney @glitchymatrix
5/9

The rejection of the thuggish autocrat and abusive PM #JohnHoward, could be felt in your core. Howard would divert attention from important things by pointing at #refugees on #boats, and #bribing people to #procreate. An awful man. We elected #KevinRudd who was visibly preparing to turn things around.

Amidst a #GFC, Kevin was great on #environment, reducing our electricity use by 30% by starting an #insulationScheme. (5/9)