#lobbying — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lobbying, aggregated by home.social.
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Tech giants fight an EU crackdown on video games that push children to spend.
The EU is working on a law to curb some of the video gaming industry’s most controversial practices.
Campaigners warn that children are especially vulnerable to gambling-like features designed to encourage spending.
But the sector’s lobbyists are fighting back against the proposed rules, and have found an influential ally within Brussels.
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Prosecutors charge German-Ukrainian woman with aiding Russian intelligence
BERLIN — Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said Monday it had filed charges against a German-Ukrainian woman suspected of…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Berlin #Business #Generalnews #Indictments #Lawenforcement #Lobbying #marketingandadvertising #Militaryanddefense #russia-ukraine-war #worldnews
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/165866/ Prosecutors charge German-Ukrainian woman with aiding Russian intelligence #berlin #business #GeneralNews #Germany #Indictments #LawEnforcement #Lobbying #MarketingAndAdvertising #MilitaryAndDefense #RussiaUkraineWar #WorldNews
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Während drei Wochen Herbstsession finden über vierzig Lobby-Anlässe statt. Lobbywatch hat die Einladungen ausgewertet, die an Parlamentsmitglieder verschickt wurden: es geht ums Geschäft und ums Networking.
Wir haben die Events in einer Timeline aufbereitet.
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Das zentrale Sprachrohr der Pharmaindustrie ist der Verband Interpharma, der mit der Organisation IG Biomedizinische Forschung und Innovation über einen direkten Draht in die gesundheitspolitische Kommission verfügt.
Interpharma beauftragt ausserdem Beratungsfirmen, die über Mandate der Pharmakonzerne verfügen und damit Interessen vertreten, die direkt gegen die geplante Rabattregelung laufen.
https://daten.lobbywatch.ch/de/organisation/288/INTERPHARMA
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Die Pharmaindustrie hat viel Einfluss in Bundesbern. Das hat damit zu tun, dass sie eine bedeutende Steuerzahlerin ist und über ein grosses Netzwerk im Parlament verfügt, wo sie mit über 100 Organisationen vertreten ist.
https://daten.lobbywatch.ch/de/lobbygruppe/1/Pharma
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Das Parlament wollte die Krankenkassenprämien senken. Eine einzige Massnahme hätte das geschafft. Jetzt liegt sie auf Eis – auf Druck der Pharmaindustrie.
https://lobbywatch.ch/die-pharmalobby-stoppt-die-kostenbremse/
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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 staffFollow the day’s news live
#AnthonyAlbanese #Laborparty #Australianews #Australianpolitics #Mexico #Lobbying #Parentsandparenting #AustralianGreens #Coalition #Socialmediaban #TheGuardian #Guardianstaff
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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
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En tant que consommateur, vos intérêts sont-ils bien représentés à Bruxelles par des organisations qui acceptent les financements/sponsorings de multinationales (Google, Amazon, Tiktok, Ferrero...) et reprennent beaucoup de leurs argumentaires de #lobbying?
Cela m'étonnerait... mais c'est pourtant le cas de Testachats / Testaankoop et du groupe euroconsumers qu'ils ont cofondé. -
RE: https://techhub.social/@estelle/116804111381589798
"If the Royal Commission is serious about investigating the nature of antisemitism and its 'key drivers', it should begin with Australia’s Israel lobby – the leading proponents of the conflation of antisemitism with antizionism."
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/if-the-royal-commission-is-serious?utm_source=substack&publication_id=4434423&post_id=203508596&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=2jzucl&triedRedirect=trueBy Louise Adler, former Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week:
#influence #lobbying #policing #respectability #Zionism #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #genocide #JewishSupremacy #hasbara #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission
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Foreign influence in Australia
"The reach [of the Israel lobby] extends into the newsrooms and it has been there for decades. Veteran ABC journalist John Lyons documented it in his 2021 book Dateline Jerusalem, writing that in forty years of journalism he had never encountered a lobby as formidable, well-funded, or relentlessly effective as the pro-Israel lobby in Australia, and that material the lobby succeeded in suppressing here was routinely published in Israel without consequence or controversy."
Andrew Brown: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-enforcement-the-lobby-that-bought-australian-democracy/
#influence #lobbying #media #policing #respectability #Zionism #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #genocide #JewishSupremacy #hasbara #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission
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Ja genau, noch mehr Autobahn brauchen wir ...
#A9: Dreispuriger Ausbau geht in Planung
Der dreispurige Ausbau der A9 #Pyhrnautobahn südlich von #Graz scheint einen Schritt näher zu kommen. Verkehrsminister Peter #Hanke (SPÖ) und die Landesregierung haben bekanntgegeben, die #ASFINAG mit einer ersten Planung des Projekts zu beauftragen.
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A recently retired #PublicServant who headed up safety management for Canada’s #NuclearRegulator is now #lobbying his former agency on behalf of the #NuclearIndustry. Brian Torrie left his post at the #Canadian #NuclearSafety #Commission #CNSC in October, according to a post on LinkedIn. He spent nearly 18 years at the commission, which regulates the use of #NuclearEnergy and materials, most recently serving as the director general of the directorate of safety management, and then as an acting vice president.
https://theijf.org/former-federal-nuclear-safety-head-starts-lobbying-for-nuclear-industry
#ConflictOfInterest #CDNpoli #DirtyDeeds #ShadyDeals #Corruption #GovernmentOfCanada #BanCorporateLobbyists #NuclearSafety #ExposeLobbyists #PublicTransparency #PublicAccountability #PublicScrutiny #Canadian #NuclearSafety #ShadyMenInSuits #PublicInterest
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Campaign Finance and #Lobbying
Problems: Dark money and special interest influence undermine democracy.
Reform Focus: Overturn Citizens United, introduce public #campaignfinancing, enforce lobbying transparency, close revolving-door loopholes, and set limits of campaign funds. 4)
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A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.
Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.
MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.
She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.
Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.
Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.
The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.
MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.
The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.
👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.
👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.
👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.
👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.
MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.
To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.
In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.
MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”
Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
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#NSW government accused of bowing to #gambling #lobby as cashless gaming trial delayed. Trial for 500 poker machines won’t begin on 1 July as planned, with a panel to oversee it yet to be established. #nswpol #PokerMachines #pokermachine #gamblinglobby #lobbying