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  1. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "The #environment #department, DEFRA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the #farming #industry. The only members of this new board are #Government #ministers & #corporate representatives & #lobbyists. Among its objectives is a 'poultry sector growth plan', to address the issue of 'planning barriers'." So, yet more #chicken sh*t #pollution of our #rivers, more #animal #cruelty, more #methane & #CO2 #emissions, more wasteful & inefficient #consumption of #soya.

  2. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "The #environment #department, DEFRA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the #farming #industry. The only members of this new board are #Government #ministers & #corporate representatives & #lobbyists. Among its objectives is a 'poultry sector growth plan', to address the issue of 'planning barriers'." So, yet more #chicken sh*t #pollution of our #rivers, more #animal #cruelty, more #methane & #CO2 #emissions, more wasteful & inefficient #consumption of #soya.

  3. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "The #environment #department, DEFRA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the #farming #industry. The only members of this new board are #Government #ministers & #corporate representatives & #lobbyists. Among its objectives is a 'poultry sector growth plan', to address the issue of 'planning barriers'." So, yet more #chicken sh*t #pollution of our #rivers, more #animal #cruelty, more #methane & #CO2 #emissions, more wasteful & inefficient #consumption of #soya.

  4. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "The #environment #department, DEFRA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the #farming #industry. The only members of this new board are #Government #ministers & #corporate representatives & #lobbyists. Among its objectives is a 'poultry sector growth plan', to address the issue of 'planning barriers'." So, yet more #chicken sh*t #pollution of our #rivers, more #animal #cruelty, more #methane & #CO2 #emissions, more wasteful & inefficient #consumption of #soya.

  5. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "The #environment #department, DEFRA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the #farming #industry. The only members of this new board are #Government #ministers & #corporate representatives & #lobbyists. Among its objectives is a 'poultry sector growth plan', to address the issue of 'planning barriers'." So, yet more #chicken sh*t #pollution of our #rivers, more #animal #cruelty, more #methane & #CO2 #emissions, more wasteful & inefficient #consumption of #soya.

  6. 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

    act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Kick-

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

  7. 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

    act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Kick-

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

  8. 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

    act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Kick-

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

  9. 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

    act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Kick-

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

  10. 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

    act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Kick-

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

  11. Rapper Boosie Badazz demands refund from MAGA lobbyists who failed to getting Trump pardon

    Rapper Boosie BadAzz is demanding a refund from a lobbying firm that failed to deliver a pardon from…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Music #artists #celebritylawsuits #donaldtrump #Entertainment #Lawsuits #lobbyists #pardons #politics #Republicans #USNews
    newsbeep.com/us/771717/

  12. Rapper Boosie Badazz demands refund from MAGA lobbyists who failed to getting Trump pardon

    Rapper Boosie BadAzz is demanding a refund from a lobbying firm that failed to deliver a pardon from…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Music #artists #celebritylawsuits #donaldtrump #Entertainment #Lawsuits #lobbyists #pardons #politics #Republicans #USNews
    newsbeep.com/us/771717/

  13. “At the moment, we see the @EUCommission engage in a lot of opaque meetings, with only #corporate #lobbyists at the table, to develop new deregulation proposals. We need to put a stop to that.”
    #corruption #EU
    corporateeurope.org/en/2026/07

  14. “At the moment, we see the @EUCommission engage in a lot of opaque meetings, with only #corporate #lobbyists at the table, to develop new deregulation proposals. We need to put a stop to that.”
    #corruption #EU
    corporateeurope.org/en/2026/07

  15. “At the moment, we see the @EUCommission engage in a lot of opaque meetings, with only #corporate #lobbyists at the table, to develop new deregulation proposals. We need to put a stop to that.”
    #corruption #EU
    corporateeurope.org/en/2026/07

  16. “At the moment, we see the @EUCommission engage in a lot of opaque meetings, with only #corporate #lobbyists at the table, to develop new deregulation proposals. We need to put a stop to that.”
    #corruption #EU
    corporateeurope.org/en/2026/07

  17. “At the moment, we see the @EUCommission engage in a lot of opaque meetings, with only #corporate #lobbyists at the table, to develop new deregulation proposals. We need to put a stop to that.”
    #corruption #EU
    corporateeurope.org/en/2026/07

  18. @KatCopseyGreens
    Beautiful illustrations! 🙏🏻 Good to see some facts… on data centre consumption of land, water, power… all leading to a suggested reasonable course of action.
    Friends are shocked at the no. of data centres already in place & proposed. They say there’s been no discussion & it’s hard to get even basic information… The social license for these things is very thin. In popular culture the outcomes they enable are universally negative (eg 2 current programs: The Capture (ABC) - on the misapplication of surveillance, & Vigil (SBS) on the use of AI targeting & kill programs & mistakes). Less secrecy & more open dialogue might help. But when govts are secretive there’s often corruption behind it - how many & large are the lobbyist-purchased lunches & how big the donations into party coffers? 🤔

    #AusPol #dataCentres #hyperscalers #AITargeting #AIKillPrograms #secrecy #lobbyists #politicalPartyDonations #TheCapture #Vigil #SocialLicense #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

  19. @KatCopseyGreens
    Beautiful illustrations! 🙏🏻 Good to see some facts… on data centre consumption of land, water, power… all leading to a suggested reasonable course of action.
    Friends are shocked at the no. of data centres already in place & proposed. They say there’s been no discussion & it’s hard to get even basic information… The social license for these things is very thin. In popular culture the outcomes they enable are universally negative (eg 2 current programs: The Capture (ABC) - on the misapplication of surveillance, & Vigil (SBS) on the use of AI targeting & kill programs & mistakes). Less secrecy & more open dialogue might help. But when govts are secretive there’s often corruption behind it - how many & large are the lobbyist-purchased lunches & how big the donations into party coffers? 🤔

    #AusPol #dataCentres #hyperscalers #AITargeting #AIKillPrograms #secrecy #lobbyists #politicalPartyDonations #TheCapture #Vigil #SocialLicense #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

  20. @KatCopseyGreens
    Beautiful illustrations! 🙏🏻 Good to see some facts… on data centre consumption of land, water, power… all leading to a suggested reasonable course of action.
    Friends are shocked at the no. of data centres already in place & proposed. They say there’s been no discussion & it’s hard to get even basic information… The social license for these things is very thin. In popular culture the outcomes they enable are universally negative (eg 2 current programs: The Capture (ABC) - on the misapplication of surveillance, & Vigil (SBS) on the use of AI targeting & kill programs & mistakes). Less secrecy & more open dialogue might help. But when govts are secretive there’s often corruption behind it - how many & large are the lobbyist-purchased lunches & how big the donations into party coffers? 🤔

    #AusPol #dataCentres #hyperscalers #AITargeting #AIKillPrograms #secrecy #lobbyists #politicalPartyDonations #TheCapture #Vigil #SocialLicense #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

  21. @KatCopseyGreens
    Beautiful illustrations! 🙏🏻 Good to see some facts… on data centre consumption of land, water, power… all leading to a suggested reasonable course of action.
    Friends are shocked at the no. of data centres already in place & proposed. They say there’s been no discussion & it’s hard to get even basic information… The social license for these things is very thin. In popular culture the outcomes they enable are universally negative (eg 2 current programs: The Capture (ABC) - on the misapplication of surveillance, & Vigil (SBS) on the use of AI targeting & kill programs & mistakes). Less secrecy & more open dialogue might help. But when govts are secretive there’s often corruption behind it - how many & large are the lobbyist-purchased lunches & how big the donations into party coffers? 🤔

    #AusPol #dataCentres #hyperscalers #AITargeting #AIKillPrograms #secrecy #lobbyists #politicalPartyDonations #TheCapture #Vigil #SocialLicense #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

  22. @KatCopseyGreens
    Beautiful illustrations! 🙏🏻 Good to see some facts… on data centre consumption of land, water, power… all leading to a suggested reasonable course of action.
    Friends are shocked at the no. of data centres already in place & proposed. They say there’s been no discussion & it’s hard to get even basic information… The social license for these things is very thin. In popular culture the outcomes they enable are universally negative (eg 2 current programs: The Capture (ABC) - on the misapplication of surveillance, & Vigil (SBS) on the use of AI targeting & kill programs & mistakes). Less secrecy & more open dialogue might help. But when govts are secretive there’s often corruption behind it - how many & large are the lobbyist-purchased lunches & how big the donations into party coffers? 🤔

    #AusPol #dataCentres #hyperscalers #AITargeting #AIKillPrograms #secrecy #lobbyists #politicalPartyDonations #TheCapture #Vigil #SocialLicense #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

  23. "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, asserts that the corporation exhibits many of the traits found in people clinically defined as psychopaths. Psychologist Robert Hare recites in the film a checklist of psychopathic traits and ties them to the behavior of corporations:

    • Callous unconcern for the feelings for others;

    • Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships;

    • Reckless disregard for the safety of others;

    • Deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning of others for profit;

    • Incapacity to experience guilt:

    • Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behavior.

    And yet, under the American legal system, corporations have the same legal rights as individuals. They make contributions to candidates. They fund over 35,000 lobbyists in Washington and thousands more in state capitals to write corporate-friendly legislation and defang regulatory agencies. They saturate the airwaves, the Internet, newspapers, and magazines with advertisements promoting their brands as the friendly face of the corporation. They have huge legal teams, tens of thousands of employees, and scores of elected officials who ward off public intrusions into their affairs or lawsuits. They hold a near monopoly on all electronic and printed sources of information."

    youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q

    #Corporations #Money #CitizensUnited #SCOTUS #Laws #Economy #USPol #Congress #Lobbyists

  24. "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, asserts that the corporation exhibits many of the traits found in people clinically defined as psychopaths. Psychologist Robert Hare recites in the film a checklist of psychopathic traits and ties them to the behavior of corporations:

    • Callous unconcern for the feelings for others;

    • Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships;

    • Reckless disregard for the safety of others;

    • Deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning of others for profit;

    • Incapacity to experience guilt:

    • Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behavior.

    And yet, under the American legal system, corporations have the same legal rights as individuals. They make contributions to candidates. They fund over 35,000 lobbyists in Washington and thousands more in state capitals to write corporate-friendly legislation and defang regulatory agencies. They saturate the airwaves, the Internet, newspapers, and magazines with advertisements promoting their brands as the friendly face of the corporation. They have huge legal teams, tens of thousands of employees, and scores of elected officials who ward off public intrusions into their affairs or lawsuits. They hold a near monopoly on all electronic and printed sources of information."

    youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q

    #Corporations #Money #CitizensUnited #SCOTUS #Laws #Economy #USPol #Congress #Lobbyists

  25. "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, asserts that the corporation exhibits many of the traits found in people clinically defined as psychopaths. Psychologist Robert Hare recites in the film a checklist of psychopathic traits and ties them to the behavior of corporations:

    • Callous unconcern for the feelings for others;

    • Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships;

    • Reckless disregard for the safety of others;

    • Deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning of others for profit;

    • Incapacity to experience guilt:

    • Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behavior.

    And yet, under the American legal system, corporations have the same legal rights as individuals. They make contributions to candidates. They fund over 35,000 lobbyists in Washington and thousands more in state capitals to write corporate-friendly legislation and defang regulatory agencies. They saturate the airwaves, the Internet, newspapers, and magazines with advertisements promoting their brands as the friendly face of the corporation. They have huge legal teams, tens of thousands of employees, and scores of elected officials who ward off public intrusions into their affairs or lawsuits. They hold a near monopoly on all electronic and printed sources of information."

    youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q

    #Corporations #Money #CitizensUnited #SCOTUS #Laws #Economy #USPol #Congress #Lobbyists

  26. "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, asserts that the corporation exhibits many of the traits found in people clinically defined as psychopaths. Psychologist Robert Hare recites in the film a checklist of psychopathic traits and ties them to the behavior of corporations:

    • Callous unconcern for the feelings for others;

    • Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships;

    • Reckless disregard for the safety of others;

    • Deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning of others for profit;

    • Incapacity to experience guilt:

    • Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behavior.

    And yet, under the American legal system, corporations have the same legal rights as individuals. They make contributions to candidates. They fund over 35,000 lobbyists in Washington and thousands more in state capitals to write corporate-friendly legislation and defang regulatory agencies. They saturate the airwaves, the Internet, newspapers, and magazines with advertisements promoting their brands as the friendly face of the corporation. They have huge legal teams, tens of thousands of employees, and scores of elected officials who ward off public intrusions into their affairs or lawsuits. They hold a near monopoly on all electronic and printed sources of information."

    youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q

    #Corporations #Money #CitizensUnited #SCOTUS #Laws #Economy #USPol #Congress #Lobbyists

  27. "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, asserts that the corporation exhibits many of the traits found in people clinically defined as psychopaths. Psychologist Robert Hare recites in the film a checklist of psychopathic traits and ties them to the behavior of corporations:

    • Callous unconcern for the feelings for others;

    • Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships;

    • Reckless disregard for the safety of others;

    • Deceitfulness: repeated lying and conning of others for profit;

    • Incapacity to experience guilt:

    • Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behavior.

    And yet, under the American legal system, corporations have the same legal rights as individuals. They make contributions to candidates. They fund over 35,000 lobbyists in Washington and thousands more in state capitals to write corporate-friendly legislation and defang regulatory agencies. They saturate the airwaves, the Internet, newspapers, and magazines with advertisements promoting their brands as the friendly face of the corporation. They have huge legal teams, tens of thousands of employees, and scores of elected officials who ward off public intrusions into their affairs or lawsuits. They hold a near monopoly on all electronic and printed sources of information."

    youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q

    #Corporations #Money #CitizensUnited #SCOTUS #Laws #Economy #USPol #Congress #Lobbyists

  28. They do seem to still write books after leaving office, and complain on social media, so I guess we have some window in how these politicians interoperable. I think #Lobbyists also define a lot of the political culture they must have some understanding of both sides, and likely provide some bridge.

  29. “All in all we are witnessing corporate #lobbyists with bold and increasing powers to influence #policy, a public that is largely in the dark about what is
    happening, and the biggest #deregulation wave ever seen in the #EU. Meanwhile instead of defending the #public, the #politicians are offering the biggest #industry lobbies an open door.” #corruption
    corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06

  30. “All in all we are witnessing corporate #lobbyists with bold and increasing powers to influence #policy, a public that is largely in the dark about what is
    happening, and the biggest #deregulation wave ever seen in the #EU. Meanwhile instead of defending the #public, the #politicians are offering the biggest #industry lobbies an open door.” #corruption
    corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06

  31. “All in all we are witnessing corporate #lobbyists with bold and increasing powers to influence #policy, a public that is largely in the dark about what is
    happening, and the biggest #deregulation wave ever seen in the #EU. Meanwhile instead of defending the #public, the #politicians are offering the biggest #industry lobbies an open door.” #corruption
    corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06

  32. “All in all we are witnessing corporate #lobbyists with bold and increasing powers to influence #policy, a public that is largely in the dark about what is
    happening, and the biggest #deregulation wave ever seen in the #EU. Meanwhile instead of defending the #public, the #politicians are offering the biggest #industry lobbies an open door.” #corruption
    corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06

  33. “All in all we are witnessing corporate #lobbyists with bold and increasing powers to influence #policy, a public that is largely in the dark about what is
    happening, and the biggest #deregulation wave ever seen in the #EU. Meanwhile instead of defending the #public, the #politicians are offering the biggest #industry lobbies an open door.” #corruption
    corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06