#lobbying — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lobbying, aggregated by home.social.
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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
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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
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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
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@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 -
“REVEALED: QATAR AND ISRAEL TOP WESTMINSTER LOBBYING LEAGUE TABLE”
by Martin Williams in Declassified UK
@Declassified_UK
@DeclassifiedUK
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@ZackPolanski
@UKLabour“Exclusive: Since July 2024, donors have paid for MPs to go on some 658 overseas junkets, at a cost of £2.2m. The majority were funded by private companies, charities or wealthy individuals.
But we found 165 trips were either funded by the foreign government concerned, or by UK-based ‘Friends Of’ groups dedicated to promoting the country in Westminster.
In total, these 165 trips were valued at almost £695,000”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-qatar-and-israel-top-westminster-lobbying-league-table/
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Westminster #Lobbying #Junkets #FriendsOf #Israel #Qatar #Taiwan #Influence #Corruption #LFI #CFI #Funding #Proxies #Transparency
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#TaylorFarms Spent Big on #MAGA and #AntiRegulatory #Lobbying Before #Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to #conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the #MAGAInc. #SuperPAC.
by Kate Taylor, Jul 21, 2026
"The lettuce supplier at the center of the turbo diarrhea outbreak has spent millions of dollars to sway sentiment around #FoodRegulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans, according to public filings.
"Taylor Farms donated more than $2 million to conservative political groups in 2025, according to Federal Election Commission filings. That includes a $1 million donation to MAGA Inc., the Trump-centric super PAC, and $1.1 million to other super PACs dedicated to electing Republicans.
"From 2020 through the end of 2024, the company donated more than $1.6 million to conservative PACs, including a total of $850,000 to #AFPAction, an anti-regulation super PAC with ties to the #Koch network.
"#BruceTaylor, the chairman and CEO of Taylor Farms, is also a longtime donor to Republican causes. Since 2020, Taylor has personally donated more than $900,000 to Republican PACs and candidates, including contributions to Texas senator #JohnCornyn and Tennessee senator #MarshaBlackburn."Read more:
https://www.wired.com/story/diarrhea-outbreak-taylor-farms-maga-donations-lobbying/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/zUBU5#KochBrothers #KochNetwork #Capitalism #Crapitalism #USPol #CyclosporaOutbreak
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Ce rejet atavique de toute forme d'intelligence, de la part de gens qui passent leur temps à se réclamer de la "raison" laisse tout de même songeur...
(En même temps là où il y a du pognon à faire ou des électeurs réac à choyer le Macronisme est toujours là)#Macronisme
#TalibansLibéraux
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Is Australia missing out on a proper gas tax because the mining lobby scared Labor off before Budget night?
Michael West reports that Labor was looking at winding back diesel fuel rebates for big miners and taxing gas exporters, before both ideas suddenly junked. An insider told MWM that "We can’t afford another fight with BHP” echoing the campaign that helped bring down Kevin Rudd in 2010. -
WSJ: Lobbyists Easily Destroyed Any Semi-Serious Antitrust Enforcers Left In MAGA
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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
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Are legislatures that are elected purely by sortition immune to lobbying by special interests?
#government #politics #sortition #legislatures #parliaments #lobbying #lobbyists #specialinterests #elections #politicians #politicalscience #democracy -
"L’offensive de lobbying de Shein en France a-t-elle réussi à retarder, puis à vider de sa substance la proposition de loi sur la « fast-fashion », pourtant adoptée à l’unanimité par l’Assemblée nationale ? Et quel est exactement le rôle de l’ex ministre Christophe Castaner, recruté par le groupe chinois ?"
par @obs_multinationales : https://multinationales.org/fr/enquetes/comment-shein-veut-imposer-son-modele/
#parlement #lobbying #lobbys #Castaner #vêtements #fastFashion #salariat #Shein #multinationales #ObservatoireDesMultinationales
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Meta's High-Stakes Antitrust Trial: Zuckerberg's Lobbying and Global Legal Battles
#Meta #MarkZuckerberg #AntitrustTrial #FTC #WhatsApp #Instagram #BigTech #UFCPartnership #TrumpAdministration #Lobbying #DigitalMarketAct #EUAntitrust #TechLaws #FTCTrial #MetaVsFTC #CompetitionLaws #TechIndustry #AntitrustLaws
https://www.techi.com/mark-zuckerberg-lobbying-trump-meta-antitrust-laws/
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#Vacancytax could improve Australia's #housingcrisis #rentalcrisis #PigsFly #nevergonnahappen #property #lobbying