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News live: parents of Australian surfers killed in Mexico fly in for trial; Labor pressured to toughen lobbying rules
By Guardian staff

Follow the day’s news live

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/07/anthony-albanese-labor-lobbying-rules-greens-social-media-fines-ntwnfb

#AnthonyAlbanese #Laborparty #Australianews #Australianpolitics #Mexico #Lobbying #Parentsandparenting #AustralianGreens #Coalition #Socialmediaban #TheGuardian #Guardianstaff

Australia news live: parents of Australians surfers killed in Mexico fly in for trial; Labor pressured to toughen lobbying rules https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/07/anthony-albanese-labor-lobbying-rules-greens-social-media-fines-ntwnfb #AnthonyAlbanese #LaborParty #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #Mexico #Lobbying #ParentsAndParenting #AustralianGreens #Coalition #SocialMediaBan

https://www.europesays.com/afrique/202006/ Nigeria: la présidentielle de 2027 se joue aussi à Washington #AtikuAbubakar #BolaTinubu #Lobbying #Nigeria #Présidentielle2027

https://www.europesays.com/people/217308/ Mark Zuckerberg killed the bill that could have saved my son #BigTech #children #Congress #Facebook #Internet #Legislation #Lobbying #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #SocialMedia

https://www.europesays.com/ch/125920/ Swiss invention helps Tibet’s diaspora make election choices #Article #BeatGlobalElections #BeatInformationWars #CitizensInitiativeAndRecall #government #HumanRights #lobbying #Multi #parliament #ProductionTypeAdaptation #Swiss #Switzerland #UserNeedGiveMePerspective

https://www.europesays.com/ch/125780/ Swiss invention helps Tibet’s diaspora make election choices #Article #BeatGlobalElections #BeatInformationWars #CitizensInitiativeAndRecall #government #HumanRights #lobbying #Multi #parliament #ProductionTypeAdaptation #Swiss #Switzerland #UserNeedGiveMePerspective

@crazyeddie @aworkinglibrary
It is probably about car dependency, car-centered areas. Like in the US where in many towns without a car one would struggle to do anything: getting to the grocery store, getting back from the store, reaching the other river bank as many bridges are motor vehicles only.

People can’t live without cars in such places. Even food banks have huge lines of cars, four "lanes". Some homeless people drive cars as well. Imagine the closest grocery store being 1 hour walking distance away, and the weather may be extremely hot/cold.

Many such areas don’t even have sidewalks or anything for walking at all. At the same time so called "jay-walking" is prohibited by law. The term "jaywalking" actually was invented by the cars lobby in the early 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
Moving around by walking is extremely inconvenient, dangerous, taking ridiculous amounts of time, basically incompatible with everyday activities.

Also the parking lots, roads, intersections take up huge chunks of the city. Consider how much longer it takes to walk somewhere compared to what it could be without all these. Urban areas could look very different if they were human-centered and Points Of Interest were packed tightly.

And the bigger the city, the more space car infrastructure takes up. More lanes, wider intersections, parking lots can have up to many thousands spots, highways, freeways, interchanges of ridiculous sizes and shapes.

The topic is huge, what I mentioned is just the tip. Think of what you see around every day. Also all the noise. And danger it brings to everyone, not just drivers. The number of so called "accidents", another convenient term for the horrible things that happen everyday.

The areas which are pedestrian-friendly, bicycle friendly, have public transportation tend to have happier residents, more attraction points, more small businesses, more street life, way better air quality, less noise among other benefits.
Also social connections and interaction happen there and not on a 4-lane highway.

#Cars #Car #City #Urban #Streets
#Cities #CarFree #Roads #CarDependancy #StreetLife #Safety #Bycicles #Walking #UrbanSprawl #OneMoreLane #InducedTraffic #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #Access #PublicTransportation #Accessibility #Accessible #PublicSpaces #Socialization #Capitalism #Subsidies #Lobbying #WordsMatter #History #CarsAreDangerous #FuckCars

Andy Burnham: Kick Palantir out of our NHS!

Rumours are Andy #Burnham wants to kick out Palantir from #OurNHS

But Palantir’s army of lobbyists won’t give up without a fight - like when they sued Mayor of London for blocking their £50mil #MetPolice deal

#Petition text

Put patients before #corporate #lobbyists

End #Palantir’s contracts with #NHS & #police. Protect our #private #data

https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Kick-Out-Palantir-eoi?utm_medium=mastodon_fediverse

#CorporateTerrorism #privacy #medical #BigData #corruption #lobbying #DemocracyNOW

Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
By George Monbiot

Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/23/lobbyists-uk-environment-ministers-ecosystems-chicken-poultry-faming

#Farming #Rivers #Pollution #Environment #Lobbying #Politics #UKnews #Food #Meatindustry #TheGuardian #GeorgeMonbiot

JP Morgan boss pressed by US senator about contact with Jeffrey Epstein
By Simon Goodley

Elizabeth Warren asks Jamie Dimon if he was advised to ‘mildly threaten’ UK chancellor over tax on bankers’ bonuses

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/13/jp-morgan-boss-jamie-dimon-us-uk-jeffrey-epstein-elizabeth-warren

#JPMorgan #JamieDimon #Banking #Business #ElizabethWarren #USnews #JeffreyEpstein #UKnews #USpolitics #Worldnews #PeterMandelson #AlistairDarling #Lobbying #Politics #TheGuardian #SimonGoodley

@ZackPolanski

My bridges are smouldering ruins.

#blair lit the fires some years ago when he went all right wing pseudo-tory. There were some remaining bridges, awaiting the general election.

Since then the wind of truth blew strong
#starmer happened.

The flames grew stronger, bridges started burning:-

#genocide in #gaza
#lobbying bribes
NHS #Sellout to hostile foreign agents
Wrongful imprisonment of #protesters
#authoritarianism
Etc

My bridges are all burnt out now.
No return.

Von der Leyen and Merz clash over future of EU’s core climate law  – POLITICO

“This system is implemented to reduce CO2 emissions, a…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Austria #Belgium #Chemicals #ChristianStocker #Climatechange #Competitiveness #electricity #Emissions #EmissionsTradingSystem #Energy #Energyprices #Fossilfuels #France #Germany #industry #Innovation #Lobbying #Manufacturing #Pollution #Regulation #TheNetherlands #UrsulavonderLeyen #WopkeHoekstra #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/393391/

Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI – Gizmodo

Artificial Intelligence

Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI

“[It’s] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we’ve done a lot of damage,” he said.

By AJ Dellinger, Published January 12, 2026

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has seen his net worth skyrocket by nearly $100 billion since the AI boom started a couple of years ago, would really appreciate it if you would stop talking about the potential harms of the technology that’s supercharged his fortune. It’s really harshing his vibe.

In an appearance on the No Priors podcast hosted by Elad Gil and Sarah Guo, Huang took aim at people who have suggested AI may have some significant, detrimental impact, from job displacement to expanding the surveillance state. “[It’s] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we’ve done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative,” he said.

According to Huang, considering the potential existential risks of unleashing AI on society may do more harm than good. “It’s not helpful. It’s not helpful to people. It’s not helpful to the industry. It’s not helpful to society. It’s not helpful to the governments,” he said. He particularly took issue with other people in the industry going to the government and asking for regulation and mandatory safeguards. “You have to ask yourself, you know, what is the purpose of that narrative and what are their intentions,” he asked rhetorically. “Why are they talking to governments about these things to create regulations to suffocate startups?”

Huang isn’t totally off-base about some of what he’s suggesting. Regulatory capture is a real risk, especially as multi-billion-dollar companies look to lock in their lead by using their absurd wealth to sway politicians and cement favorable policy. And there’s no doubt that AI players have been getting into the lobbying business. According to the Wall Street Journal, Silicon Valley firms have already poured more than $100 million into new Super PACs to push pro-AI messaging in the lead-up to midterm elections in 2026. There is also zero doubt that industry players use societal-scale risks as a marketing tactic: it makes their product seem full of endless potential, and it suggests they need to maintain control of it to keep everyone safe rather than letting this powerful tool fall into the wrong hands or be controlled by some government regulator. 

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI

La Clique du Château, version américaine
🇺🇲 Des entreprises engagent des millions pour célébrer l’investiture de Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/26/politics/trump-inauguration-corporate-donors/index.html
#patronage #copinage #politique #USA #investiture #lobbying #riches #corporations #entreprise #histoire

Doppeltes Spiel des Agrarverbandes: Bauernschlaue Lobbyisten

»Der #Bauernverband verspricht in der #Zukunftskommission #Naturschutz, handelt aber dagegen. Umweltverbände fürchten jetzt Ähnliches auf EU-Ebene.

Der Deutsche Bauern­verband hat mehrmals Zusagen für mehr #Umweltschutz im wichtigsten Beratergremium der #Bundesregierung zur #Landwirtschaft gebrochen. Die Organisation unterschrieb in der Zukunftskommission Landwirtschaft (#ZKL) wichtige Forderungen nach mehr Natur­- und #Tierschutz in der Branche. Dafür mäßigten Umweltschützer ihre Kritik an der #Agrarlobby. Doch besonders seit den Bauernprotesten des vergangenen Winters verstößt der Verband gegen den Konsens des Expertengremiums und kämpft dafür, Umweltvorschriften zu kippen. Mit Erfolg. […]

Das #Lobbying des Bauernverbandes und seiner #EU-Dachorganisation #CopaCogeca war so erfolgreich, dass die Empfänger von #Agrarsubventionen unter dem grünen Bundeslandwirtschaftsminister Cem #Özdemir nun sogar weniger für die #Umwelt tun müssen als unter seiner CDU-Vorgängerin Julia #Klöckner. […]

Es ist nicht das einzige gebrochene Versprechen. Der ZKL-Bericht empfahl, weniger tierische Lebensmittel zu produzieren, weil sie dem #Klima schaden. Doch Bauernverbandspräsident Joachim #Rukwied sprach sich später klar dagegen aus, die Viehzahlen zu senken […]

So hält die Doppelzüngigkeit der #Agrarlobby in der ZKL und im echten ­Leben an. Besonders deutlich zeigte sich das im April, als die ZKL empfahl, mehr Tierschutz mithilfe einer höheren #Mehrwertsteuer auf #Fleisch zu finanzieren. Wenn die Verbraucher #Tierwohlprämien für Bauern mitbezahlen müssten, sollte dies über „die Anhebung des bisher reduzierten Mehrwertsteuersatzes auf tierische Produkte“ geschehen, heißt es im entsprechenden Papier, dem auch der Bauernverband zugestimmt hatte. Die Kommission begrüßte ausdrücklich, dass sich die Ampelkoalition Mitte Mai 2023 auf eine Tierwohlabgabe für Fleisch geeinigt habe. […]

Doch #Rukwied erklärte kurz nach Bekanntwerden des Papiers: „Eine Mehrwertsteuererhöhung auf den Regelsatz oder einen Tierwohlcent lehnen wir ab. Das Geld für den Tierwohlumbau muss aus dem Bundeshaushalt kommen. […]

Auch heute noch gibt es Unzufriedenheit in der Zukunftskommission Landwirtschaft. „Die Kommission ist eine gezielte Strategie, um die ­Umweltverbände zu binden“, erfuhr die #taz aus Kreisen der aktuellen Kommission. Die Umweltschützer würden hunderte Stunden für Ergebnisse verwenden, die sowieso nicht umgesetzt würden. „Aber der Bauernverband kann sagen: Wir sprechen ja miteinander, und deshalb demonstriert jetzt mal bitte nicht. Die Kommission hält den Wut der Umweltseite auf der Führungsebene im Zaum." Spätestens nach der Aufweichung der Umweltbedingungen für die #Agrarsubventionen sei aber „massiver öffentlicher Protest“ nötig.

Stattdessen beteiligen sich große Umweltorganisationen jetzt auch noch an einer Arbeitsgruppe auf EU-Ebene nach dem Vorbild der deutschen ZKL: am „Strategischen Dialog zur Zukunft der EU-Landwirtschaft“, den Ursula #vonderLeyen im Januar eröffnet hat. […]

Hannes Lorenzen, Vorsitzender der Gruppe Arc2020, die sich für eine Reform der EU-Agrarpolitik einsetzt, glaubt, dass das Forum einen echten Austausch nur vorspielen solle. „Ich habe allen Nicht­regierungsorganisationen gesagt: Geht nicht dorthin. Die Bauernverbände werden sich nicht einen Millimeter bewegen.“ Der Dialog solle nur legitimieren, dass die #EuropäischeUnion die Umweltstandards in der #Agrarpolitik abbaut.«

https://taz.de/Doppeltes-Spiel-des-Agrarverbandes/!6009938/ via @tazgetroete

#Europawahl ist #Klimawahl
#EU2024 #Agrarindustrielobby #LULUCF #Artensterben #Biodiversitätskrise #BiologischeVielfalt #Biodiversität #Artenvielfalt #Massentierhaltung

@QLC

As congressional Republicans advanced legislation that would clear the way for new oil and gas infrastructure, #Valero contributed $250,000 each to the #House and #Senate #GOP #super #PACs.

The company also reported spending $60,000 lobbying the House and Senate on “issues related to infrastructure permitting,” among other topics.

While the push for “permitting reform” stalled, the deal reached by the Joe Biden administration and congressional Republicans in May to raise the federal debt limit included a provision expediting the controversial #Mountain #Valley #Pipeline — which opponents say will cause emissions equivalent to twenty-six new coal-fired power plants — and shielding the project from further legal challenges.

#Valero reported #lobbying on permitting issues in the debt ceiling deal, as did Texas-based #Energy #Transfer #Partners, whose billionaire chairman Kelcy Warren gave $5,000 to the Congressional Leadership Fund in March. Energy Transfer also donated $2 million to the fund last year.

While neither Valero nor Energy Transfer are among the consortium of companies involved with the Mountain Valley Pipeline, both companies have faced their own recent permitting woes.

In 2021, legal challenges and intense public opposition halted a planned pipeline that would have transported crude oil from Valero’s Memphis, Teneessee, refinery to Mississippi for export — but local activists fear the company is looking for a way to revive the project.

And Energy Transfer, the company behind the fiercely contested Dakota Access Pipeline, is currently at odds with the Biden administration over the denial of a permit for a planned liquefied natural gas export terminal in Louisiana.

https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/@QLC/110826521003588703