🇪🇺 #Lobbying: How Europe’s #Business lobby took over the European Commission The EU’s regulatory 'simplification' drive is turning into a bonanza for corporate lobbyists at the expense of #CivilSociety groups focused on areas such as the #Environment and #Health www.euractiv.com/news/counter...

Counterinsurgency: How Europe’...

The #Arizona Democrat turned "Independent" decided not to seek reelection last year and instead became a senior adviser at the law and #lobbying firm #HoganLovells. She’s since taken up the cause of #psychedelic medicine — pro bono. Her drug of choice? #Ibogaine www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for He...

Meta Lobbies Government to Implement Broken Age Verification Into App Stores

Meta is pushing the Canadian government into putting age verification on app stores and take heat off of their platforms.

https://www.freezenet.ca/meta-lobbies-government-to-implement-broken-age-verification-into-app-stores/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #AppStore #Canada #Facebook #lobbying #Meta

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580385/uk-bans-wet-wipes-containing-plastics-but-nz-won-t-government-says "The government's priority is to ensure any changes are well-considered, manageable, and do not impose unnecessary costs on businesses or households, while still protecting New Zealand's environment." #nzpol #waste #environment #lobbying #onetermgovt #FlickThePricksIn26

À lire, c'est édifiant !
INTÉGRISME CATHOLIQUE UN PROBLÈME MAJEUR
Pour que chacune et chacun prenne la mesure de l’influence et de la dangerosité des réseaux #intégristes #catholiques, nous avons cartographié pour vous les principaux groupes actifs et infiltrés en #Europe.
Génération Athée
https://www.generation-athee.fr/2025/11/28/cartographie-des-principaux-groupes-integristes-catholiques-en-europe/
#athée #athéisme #athéalisme #politique #social #Économies #laïcité #religion #secte #Lobbying #entrisme #ingérence

The wonderful world of hypocrisy, where people shop on Amazon after complaining the whole Thanksgiving about US politics and AI. Who do you think gives Amazon all the money to digitally imprison us.
#AI #blackfriday #lobbying #politics
https://www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-digitalisation/no-to-techno-authoritarianism-8711/

Die Platinum-Sponsoren des Privacy Symposium 2025 in Venedig sind das Who-is-Who der Datenkraken:

AWS, Meta, Google, Microsoft, TikTok...

Die gleichen Unternehmen, die täglich Unmengen an Nutzerdaten sammeln und an den Höchstbietenden verscherbeln, sponsern eine der bedeutendsten Konferenzen für Privatsphäre.

Fast wie wenn Ölkonzerne eine Klimakonferenz sponsern würden🙃

https://privacysymposium.org/

#Privacy #Datenschutz #BigTech #Lobbying

The Self-Lobbyist

Lobbying has a bad reputation, but there are good reasons for lobbying:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=178

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#lobbyist #lobbying

Today, I'm reading through the latest terrible, capitalist, power-hungry, ideologically wrong things that are happening around us,
and what was my realization today...?

Oh, fuck you all...
Sorry for the language

But that's what I read, and then this expression just came up in me,
and after reading the whole article, I really had to curse.
Unfortunately, the article is only in German

https://chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed/115622149004250734

#mastodon #fediverse #palantir #justice #world #lobbying #money #power

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/579888/how-the-oil-and-gas-industry-helped-rewrite-new-zealand-s-drilling-rules "That shows an extraordinary sense of self entitlement from the oil and gas industry," said Greenpeace executive director Russel Norman. "That these same companies and same individuals are back in the room demanding that a loophole in the law be reopened so that the taxpayer has to pick up the bill once again for their mess - it's really striking." #nzpol #climate #fossilfuels #lobbying

Old White Men with a lot of Privilege....can't trust 'em!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/24/house-of-lords-peers-richard-dannatt-david-evans-suspended-breaking-lobbying-rules

#HoL #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #RIchardDannatt #DavidEvans #Lobbying

Techdirt: Defense Contractor Lobbyists Are Trying To Kill Army ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms With A Bunch Of Lies And Bullshit. “…despite the bipartisan popularity of right to repair reforms, companies aren’t keen on losing money via a government crackdown on their grift. The various policy and lobbying fronts for America’s defense contractors have been busy this fall trying to frame the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/24/techdirt-defense-contractor-lobbyists-are-trying-to-kill-army-right-to-repair-reforms-with-a-bunch-of-lies-and-bullshit/

The ten biggest #TechCompanies spend three(!) times more for lobbying than the top 10 spenders of #pharma #finance #automotive industries which are known for having very effective #lobbying.

Next time you complain about the oh so bad #pharma industry, don't do it on the platforms of the #MegaCorps whose greed you're feeding. 😉

Source: #Ö1 #digitalLeben podcast episode of 2025-11-19: https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20251119/813766/Digital-Leben

#EU #digitalOmnibus #digitalSouvereignity #bribe #politics #Meta #Google #Apple #Microsoft #Amazon #democracy

Les "pétrosavoirs", alliés des climatosceptiques contre les énergies renouvelables .

Même la nécessité d’une "électricité de base non renouvelable" (nucléaire ou autre) vient d’être récemment modélisée comme inutile et trop coûteuse dans la stabilisation d’un système électrique basé sur les renouvelables. Comprendre : les énergies renouvelables peuvent se suffire à elles-mêmes.

#EnergiesRenouvelables #PV #Eoliennes #Climat #Lobbying #EnergiesFossiles #Nucleaire

https://www.rtbf.be/article/les-petrosavoirs-allies-des-climatosceptiques-contre-les-energies-renouvelables-11629938