"The EU is developing a Code of Practice to govern general purpose AI, as part of the implementation of the AI Act. But Big Tech has heavily influenced the process to successfully weaken the Code."

"From the second to the third draft of the Code, obligations changed to encouragements. Prohibitions became suggestions. Best efforts, reasonable efforts."

@corporateeurope: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/04/coded-privileged-access

#AIAct #lobbying #lobbies #Microsoft #AIEthics #GAFAM #scoring #AI #civilLiberties #EU #AIRisks #tech

(8/8) ... mafia + plainte en diffamation pour empêcher candidature contre eux mairie d’Acerra + Rome -> extrême droite Gianni Alemanno jusqu'en 2013 (cf Meloni).
- rachat club #football Manchester City par fonds d’investissement émirati (cf 2034 + #cuju).
- France pub produits gras/salés/sucrés = 2.2 milliards € #sucre #lobbies

#climat #year2008 #climate #anthropocene #climatechange #climatecrisis

'Coincidentally, the push for less onerous standards on supplements and psychedelics would come while Kennedy is demanding “gold-standard science” to review preservatives and other food additives that he has said could play a role in the country’s high rate of chronic diseases.'

https://undark.org/2025/03/04/supplement-industry-rfk/
#USpol #HHS #FDA #RFKJr #TheRealRFKJr #supplementIndustry #junkScience #MAHA #lobbies

#geopolitics #capitalism #middleeast #classwar #lobbies
@palestine

I would like to suggest a relatively new YouTube channel, defined as:
"The Anti-Imperialist Podcast your uncle will HATE"

Here it is. Let me know what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/@ColonialOutcasts

Suivez en direct l'intervention de Morgan Large, lors de la journée Sciences & médias, organisée à la BNF François-Mitterrand, ce vendredi, à 14 h 15, sur YouTube. 📌 1/

#splann #science #media #journalisme #journaliste #morganlarge #enquete #bretagne #environnement #lobbies #lobby #scientifiques #scmedias #bnf

Signer la pétition et soutenait FoodWatch

Les lobbies contre les faits et la science

Faux pas n°1 : reprendre les arguments des lobbies

Faux pas n°2 : décrédibiliser le Nutri-Score, la science et la santé publique

Faux pas n° 3 : critiquer le calcul du Nutri-Score

https://www.foodwatch.org/fr/actualites/2025/nutri-score-la-ministre-de-l-agriculture-bloque-en-faveur-des-lobbies

#agriculture #sante #sante_publique #gouvernement #lobbies #alimentation

The far-right Patriots in the European Parliament want an EU #DOGE to kill #NGOs. While @lobbycontrol exposing that corporate #lobbies have 15 times more power. The #EPP should rethink if to follow #Orban or to support civil society!

Case in point: same #lobbies that want to label #blueH2 as clean, use the #deregulation 🚌 #Omnibus laws to roll back hard-won climate protections, such as the EU’s 2024 Methane Regulation.

⚠️ This could open the door for continued imports of highly polluting #LNG from fracked gas in the US

Label #BlueH2 as 'clean’ means billions in new subsidies 4 #fossilfuel projects that exacerbate the #ClimateCrisis

⛔no to #False Solutions such as #CCS and #H2

Case in point: same #lobbies that want to label #blueH2 as clean, use the #deregulation 🚌 #Omnibus laws to roll back hard-won climate protections, such as the EU’s 2024 Methane Regulation. ⚠️ This could open the door for continued imports of highly polluting #LNG from fracked gas in the US

Key #Pirate political positions:
1. #Lobbies must not be given legislative powers;
2. Bribes towards politicians are unacceptable.
Yet, the #PPEU & #PPI, manipulated by the @piratenpartei and its cohorts, have no problem with #ApartheidIsrael's lobby buying politicians and passing its own laws in the #EU and #USA. This is a #betrayal against our ideology and we openly denounce these politicians that falsely call themselves #Pirates.

Le gouvernement propose de réautoriser le plastique dans les cantines scolaires sous la pression des lobbys

> Un projet de décret ouvre la voie à un retour des couverts et de la vaisselle en plastique dans les cantines scolaires, afin d’éviter un nouveau recours des professionnels de la plasturgie.
https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/03/11/le-gouvernement-propose-de-reautoriser-le-plastique-dans-les-cantines-scolaires-sous-la-pression-des-lobbys_6578382_3244.html

#Plastique #Volonté_politique #Lobbies #FdC #RevueDePresse

EU #Omnibus is the result of corporate capture, study suggests.

The proposal of EU Omnibus is a massive deregulation endeavour that empties out due diligence and sustainability reporting obligations. Designed by the European Commission, the project jeopardizes years of legislative work aiming to ensure companies respect human and social rights, preserve the environment and align with climate goals: https://reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2025/03/06/eu-omnibus-a-playground-for-industry-lobbies/

#pollution #lobbying #Brussels #Europe #EU #growth #transition #lobbies

What NGOs like Greenpeace ultimately offer, according to @ClementSenechal, is “environmentalism as spectacle.”

'Of particular interest is Sénéchal’s treatment of the past and present of Greenpeace. Quite visibly at odds with his former employer, the author takes Greenpeace as representative of the decadence of official environmentalism. Eschewing a coherent critique of the environmental crisis, organizations like Greenpeace, according to Sénéchal, are more devoted to agitprop demonstrations and photo ops better geared to satisfying activist egos rather than advancing strategic goals.

'These contradictions were apparent from the 1970s':
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/environmentalism-climate-activism-ngos-policy

@climate 🧵

#activism #spectacle #environmentalism #book #agitprop #joy #career #struggle #struggles #liberation #demonstrations #militancy #militants #activism #activists #protests #politicalPhilosophy #institutionsDeceive #politics #lobbying #lobbies

#Bruxelles 05.02.25

Il y a quelques années, j'avais oublié un potimarron qui a germé de l'intérieur. J'ai récupéré les graines et ce fût abondance.
Comment a-t-on pu laisser l'#alimentation aux mains des #lobbies comme #Monsanto, #Bayer et consorts?
La culture est un savoir à protéger et #partager urgemment.

#photography #photo #alimentation #food #souveraineté #money #multinationale #politics #nature #Patchamama #agriculture #permaculture #cultiver #jardiner #Education #ecologie #life#power

La #CommissionEuropeenne a présenté mercredi un projet de révision de textes clés du #PacteVert issus du précédent mandat. En théorie pour renforcer la compétitivité en réduisant la bureaucratie. Les ONG dénoncent une dérégulation sous la pression des #lobbies et des #ExtremeDroite s.

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/260225/ue-la-commission-saborde-son-propre-agenda-vert

"Today one of the Commission’s flagship projects, the ‘Clean Industrial Deal’ #CID is published. The deal breaks with past ambitions on #chemicals, and deepens the EU’s commitment to false solutions to the climate disaster. Some of the most polluting industries will receive billions in state aid and financing from EU funds, laws will be amended to suit their agenda."

by @corporateeurope: https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/polluters-get-paid

#lobbying #Brussels #energy #offsets #Europe #EU #growth #transition #lobbies

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/02/25/les-chercheurs-abasourdis-par-le-deni-sur-l-effondrement-de-la-biodiversite-c-est-nous-qui-avons-raison-et-non-les-lobbies_6562626_3244.html

#biodiversite #lobbies

The 162 corporations and trade associations which declare EU lobby budgets of over €1 million annually, collectively declare at least €343 million per year.

Five-year growth: Since 2020, these corporate interests have declared nearly €86 million more, marking a one-third increase over five years.

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/eus-lobby-league-table 🧵

#Tech #Banking #Chemicals #lobbying #Brussels #energy #offsets #Europe #greenCapitalism #electricity #EU #growth #spillovers #transition #lobbies #openData #LobbyControl

A hypothetical scenario behind the anti seed oil movement is that the proponents are being bought off by various #lobbies. This would be seen if the profit margins of non seed oils is higher than seed oils.

Some examples of a non seed oil come from the #dairy industry and it seems in general that the global market size of dairy is many folds greater than for seed oils. Additionally, it seems like the dairy industry gets also many folds more subsidies than the seed oils industry. These both statements would confirm the original #hypothesis.

Though if in return the #subsidies
for the seed oils industry would increase, therefore providing the dairy industry with cheaper material, then it would create an increased profit margin. Thus questioning the original hypothesis if it is financially driven.

Alternatively, one could still explain it away as financially driven with the idea of having money now over having potentially more money tomorrow.

#ThoughtExperiment #LifeStyle #health #SeedOils #AntiSeedMovement

Les industriels du plastique sont à l’offensive, et attaquent sur les réseaux sociaux celles et ceux qui luttent contre le gaspillage. C’est ce qu’ont constaté plusieurs ONG et militants ces derniers jours. «Le lobby du plastique est en surchauffe sur les réseaux sociaux. À chaque prise de position contre le plastique à usage unique, il contre-attaque". Pour l’heure, les industriels se réjouissent du nouveau texte européen qui reporte l’interdiction à 2030. https://reporterre.net/Les-lobbies-du-plastique-retardent-la-fin-des-emballages-sur-les-legumes

#lobbies