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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"In 2023, 60 per cent of Australians rejected a constitutionally recognised Voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. A body that could only make representations, only on matters concerning the people whose ancestors have been here sixty thousand years.
"Too much, the No campaign shrieked. Division. Privilege. Special treatment.
"Nine months later, Anthony Albanese handed Jillian Segal what the Voice never dreamed of asking for. Not a right to be heard. Power. No election. No parliamentary vote. No hearing. A three year commission reporting personally to the Prime Minister, with a mandate reaching into every campus, newsroom, classroom, gallery, charity, arts contract and visa file in the Commonwealth."

Andrew Brown writes: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-state-the-office-australia-never-voted-for/

#academicFreedom #influence #lobbying #policing #silencing #genocideSupport #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #manipulation #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission #AusPol #JillianSegal #Segal #AnthonyAlbanese

“REVEALED: QATAR AND ISRAEL TOP WESTMINSTER LOBBYING LEAGUE TABLE”

by Martin Williams in Declassified UK

@Declassified_UK
@DeclassifiedUK
@uk_politics
@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

#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

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

While the memory of the worst heat wave in European history is still fresh, the @EUCommission is considering to lift #climateprotection rules for AI data centers and other big tech shit

Good job, boys and girls! That's exactly what the Europeans need!

#ClimateCrisis #lobbying #eu

https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-Data-Centers-Tech-Lobby-Pushes-EU-to-Water-Down-Climate-Rules-11351804.html

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=true

By 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

A quotation from John Adams

Your “ἄρiςτοi” [aristocrats] are the most difficult Animals to manage, of any thing in the whole Theory and practice of Government. They will not Suffer themselves to be governed. They not only exert all their own Subtilty Industry and courage, but they employ the Commonalty, to knock to pieces every Plan and Model that the most honest Architects in Legislation can invent to keep them within bounds.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1813-07-09) to Thomas Jefferson

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/84725/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #aristocracy #aristocrat #classwarfare #government #lobbying #politicalinfluence #politicaltheory #politics #power #propaganda #ruleoflaw #upperclass

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

#Wedding #PhotoBooth Company Exposes Customers’ #Drunken #Photos

A photo booth company that caters to weddings, #lobbying events in D.C., and #engagement #parties has exposed a cache of peoples’ photos, with the revellers likely unaware that their sometimes drunken antics have been collected and insecurely stored by the company for anyone to download.
#privacy

https://www.404media.co/wedding-photo-booth-company-exposes-customers-drunken-photos/

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

Reading time 3 minutes

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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

Europe’s corruption challenge goes beyond an East–West divide.

Petty bribery may be rarer in Western Europe, but influence, lobbying and regulatory capture remain powerful — and often minimised.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260101-europes-corruption-challenge-goes-beyond-an-eastwest-divide?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Corruption #Europe #Bribery #Lobbying #RegulatoryCapture #FedericaMogherini #LePen #Ukraine #Politics #Business

[...] à l’intersection du #politique et du #business, du #lobbying, de la #philanthropie, de la #tech, du monde universitaire, de la #finance et des médias [...] : de l'intérêt financier de recruter volontairement des incompétents -> corruptibles.

cf recrutement dans les hautes fonctions publiques et les postes de direction/sous-chef #management

#usa #politics #corrption #economy #year2008 #year2016 #year2019 #year2024 #magam #socialmedia #internet #guerre #sante #logement #btp #jetset

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.

https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3323473/

#Autokorrektur
#Verkehr
#Lobbying

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

Ex-FCC Chair Ajit Pai is now a wireless lobbyist–and enemy of cable companies

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/ex-fcc-chair-ajit-pai-is-now-a-wireless-lobbyist-and-enemy-of-cable-companies/

#HackerNews #ExFCCChair #AjitPai #WirelessLobbyist #CableCompanies #TechPolicy #Lobbying

Weitere Infos zu diesem #Lobbyverein der 🇦🇹 #Lebensmittelindustrie:

Dieser Verein #ForumErnährungHeute wurde offenbar mit viel Geheimniskrämerei gegründet, wie halt meist bei #Lobbyarbeit. Aber eine Recherchegruppe hat sich dies genauer angeschaut (Beitrag aus 03/2017)
https://newsv2.orf.at/stories/2384267/2384266/

Eine Arbeit vom MCI (Innsbruck) zur #politischenEinflussnahme der #Lebensmittelkonzerne, als Beispiel dient genau dieses "Forum"
https://research.mci.edu/de/cshi/blog/1984-wie-lebensmittelkonzerne-in-oesterreich-politische-entscheidungsprozesse-beeinflussen-das-beispiel-forum-ernaehrung-heute

Nach reichlicher Kritik hat der Verein dann offenbar die Mitglieder transparent gemacht.
https://www.forum-ernaehrung.at/ueber-feh/unsere-mitglieder
Noch Fragen? 🤔

Hier die #Werbung der #Wirtschaftskammer (#WKO) gegen eine #Zuckersteuer
https://www.wko.at/oe/industrie/nahrungs-genussmittelindustrie/3x3-argumente-gegen-eine-zucker-steuer-bei-softdrinks

Und wer als von den Konzernen "gesponserter Wissenschaftler" auf der Seite "Wissenschaftlicher Beirat" aufgelistet ist, den kann man als Wissenschaftler nicht mehr ernst nehmen! 🤷‍♂️
https://www.forum-ernaehrung.at/ueber-feh/wer-wir-sind#wissenschaftlicherbeirat

Damit ist die Frage, was gegen eine #Zuckersteuer spricht, geklärt.

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#Zucker #Gesundheit #Softdrinks #Kinderprodukte #Lobby #lobbying #IndustrieLobby #TaxTheRich

🤔 Was spricht nochmal gegen eine #Zuckersteuer auch bei uns?

Ach ja, natürlich, die #Lebensmittelindustrie, versteckt unter einem Verein #ForumErnährung, mit dem man "Wissenschaftlichkeit" vorgaukeln will aber der in Wahrheit nur deren #Lobbyarbeit macht.

Und die #Wirtschaftskammer #WKO #lobbyiert mit.

"Zu viel Zucker in Kindermilchprodukten"
https://salzburg.orf.at/stories/3306910/

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#Zucker #Gesundheit #Softdrinks #Kinderprodukte #Lobby #lobbying #IndustrieLobby #TaxTheRich

Lobbying firms #secretly helped new Labour MPs to get elected

A #lobbyist can give a Labour MP £1,499 without it being declared. And that’s still true if they give 30 Labour MPs £1,499

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/lobbying-firms-fund-new-labour-mps-not-declared-register-of-interests

#corruption #UK #Labour #politics #Tory #lobbying #bribes #backhanders

#Lobbying groups representing #NewYorkLife, #LincolnFinancial Group, #Prudential #Financial & other companies first pushed back against the newly proposed #regulations before suing to topple them entirely. Now the govt’s latest attempt to protect #retirees is in political & #legal limbo…

It is the latest example of a pervasive pattern: As the #Biden admin tries to impose new restrictions on #powerful industries, those #businesses successfully turn to #Congress & the #courts for a reprieve.
#law

Act Now on MP’s Second Jobs

Tory Government has scrapped pledge to restrict #MPs’ second jobs

This gives the green light to more sleaze in #Westminster

We call for limits to how much MPs can spend working in second jobs, & how much they can earn. We also need a strict ban of any second jobs that involve covert lobbying.

Petition:
https://secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/102212/petition/1?ea.url.id=6494983

#Corruption #ToryCorruption #UK #fascism #dictatorship #dystopia #authoritarian #jobs #lobbying #ToryLies #ToryFascists

Nominations for @thehill’s 2023 Top Lobbyists list are now open!

The list highlights the most impactful advocates at K Street firms, companies, trade associations and grassroots advocacy groups.

More details (including the nomination link) here: https://thehill.com/lobbying/4241934-nominations-for-the-hills-2023-top-lobbyists-now-open/

#lobbying #toplobbyists #nomination #thehill #dc #kstreet #advocacy #tradeassociations

@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

#DavidEby is a #Horganized #manboy #groomed for years by #JohnHorgan - one of the #sleaziest people I've met in my life. Met this #corrupt #narcissistic #opportunist in 90s - #Reminding #BritishColumbia folks - he was a #CasinoLobbyist when I met him. Bribed via backroom #lobbying to shove slot machines & more casinos in places - when community stated they don't want them. Eby never added his #DaddyHorgan to his casino corruption #investigation & became #BCPremier in #kingmaking sleazy move.