#lobbyists — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/771717/

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
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/771717/

“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
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/07/ombudsman-shed-light-commissions-opaque-meetings-business

“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
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/07/ombudsman-shed-light-commissions-opaque-meetings-business

@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

@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

@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

@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

@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

"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."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q

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

"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."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q

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

"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."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q

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

"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."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q

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

"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."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v8e7dUwq_Q

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

“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
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/eu-corporate-lobby-league-2026

“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
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/eu-corporate-lobby-league-2026

🏷️ #Venezuela #USA #BackroomDiplomacy #Oil #BusinessInterests #Bondholders #Influencers #Lobbyists

🔗 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/07/venezuela-oil-maduro-sargeant-grenell-00851900

🏷️ #Venezuela #USA #BackroomDiplomacy #Oil #BusinessInterests #Bondholders #Influencers #Lobbyists

🔗 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/07/venezuela-oil-maduro-sargeant-grenell-00851900

In the same week as voting with the far right to weaken #tobacco taxation measures, the EPP has also blocked a cross-party initiative to tighten rules for tobacco #lobbyists 🤯 Socialist MEP Casares slammed the "pro-tobacco alliance between the EPP and the far right" www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...

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@paninid The #UnitedStates is NOT a ‘two-party system’!

Read the #UnitedStates #Constitution. Political parties aren’t mentioned ONCE!

You’d think #Americans of ALL people in the world 🌎 would know better than to fall for a ‘Jedi mind trick’ by #lobbyists. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#PrimaryFromTheCenter #StrategicVoting castrates the bastards. Just do it!

C’mon, folks. This ain’t rocket 🚀 surgery!

Use #MATH to #SaveAmerica.

@paninid The #UnitedStates is NOT a ‘two-party system’!

Read the #UnitedStates #Constitution. Political parties aren’t mentioned ONCE!

You’d think #Americans of ALL people in the world 🌎 would know better than to fall for a ‘Jedi mind trick’ by #lobbyists. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#PrimaryFromTheCenter #StrategicVoting castrates the bastards. Just do it!

C’mon, folks. This ain’t rocket 🚀 surgery!

Use #MATH to #SaveAmerica.

@paninid The #UnitedStates is NOT a ‘two-party system’!

Read the #UnitedStates #Constitution. Political parties aren’t mentioned ONCE!

You’d think #Americans of ALL people in the world 🌎 would know better than to fall for a ‘Jedi mind trick’ by #lobbyists. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#PrimaryFromTheCenter #StrategicVoting castrates the bastards. Just do it!

C’mon, folks. This ain’t rocket 🚀 surgery!

Use #MATH to #SaveAmerica.

@paninid The #UnitedStates is NOT a ‘two-party system’!

Read the #UnitedStates #Constitution. Political parties aren’t mentioned ONCE!

You’d think #Americans of ALL people in the world 🌎 would know better than to fall for a ‘Jedi mind trick’ by #lobbyists. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#PrimaryFromTheCenter #StrategicVoting castrates the bastards. Just do it!

C’mon, folks. This ain’t rocket 🚀 surgery!

Use #MATH to #SaveAmerica.

@paninid The #UnitedStates is NOT a ‘two-party system’!

Read the #UnitedStates #Constitution. Political parties aren’t mentioned ONCE!

You’d think #Americans of ALL people in the world 🌎 would know better than to fall for a ‘Jedi mind trick’ by #lobbyists. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#PrimaryFromTheCenter #StrategicVoting castrates the bastards. Just do it!

C’mon, folks. This ain’t rocket 🚀 surgery!

Use #MATH to #SaveAmerica.

@OklaBot This ⬆️ news from #Oklahoma once again shows that #politicians, and more importantly their handlers (aka #Lobbyists ), do NOT want you to be politically #Independent.

That tells you they fear #PrimaryFromTheCenter #StrategicVoting more than anything else. So…

*Just do it!*

#MATH #USpol

@OklaBot This ⬆️ news from #Oklahoma once again shows that #politicians, and more importantly their handlers (aka #Lobbyists ), do NOT want you to be politically #Independent.

That tells you they fear #PrimaryFromTheCenter #StrategicVoting more than anything else. So…

*Just do it!*

#MATH #USpol

@OklaBot This ⬆️ news from #Oklahoma once again shows that #politicians, and more importantly their handlers (aka #Lobbyists ), do NOT want you to be politically #Independent.

That tells you they fear #PrimaryFromTheCenter #StrategicVoting more than anything else. So…

*Just do it!*

#MATH #USpol

@OklaBot This ⬆️ news from #Oklahoma once again shows that #politicians, and more importantly their handlers (aka #Lobbyists ), do NOT want you to be politically #Independent.

That tells you they fear #PrimaryFromTheCenter #StrategicVoting more than anything else. So…

*Just do it!*

#MATH #USpol

@OklaBot This ⬆️ news from #Oklahoma once again shows that #politicians, and more importantly their handlers (aka #Lobbyists ), do NOT want you to be politically #Independent.

That tells you they fear #PrimaryFromTheCenter #StrategicVoting more than anything else. So…

*Just do it!*

#MATH #USpol

Cryptoland's latest masterpiece: a desperate attempt to #swindle the #EU into believing that #stablecoins will solve all world problems, cure diseases, and probably make your coffee too ☕️😂. Meanwhile, their #lobbyists are busy crafting manifestos that are longer than a Tolstoy novel, all to dodge pesky AML/CTF regulations. Bravo, crypto! 🚀🙄
https://www.standwithcrypto.org/eu/en/manifesto #Cryptoland #AML #CTF #HackerNews #ngated

Cryptoland's latest masterpiece: a desperate attempt to #swindle the #EU into believing that #stablecoins will solve all world problems, cure diseases, and probably make your coffee too ☕️😂. Meanwhile, their #lobbyists are busy crafting manifestos that are longer than a Tolstoy novel, all to dodge pesky AML/CTF regulations. Bravo, crypto! 🚀🙄
https://www.standwithcrypto.org/eu/en/manifesto #Cryptoland #AML #CTF #HackerNews #ngated

#DeclassifiedUK | Why don’t UK media mention the Israel lobby?

https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-dont-uk-media-mention-the-israel-lobby/

#MarkCurtis #Israel #Lobbyists #Media

#DeclassifiedUK | Why don’t UK media mention the Israel lobby?

https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-dont-uk-media-mention-the-israel-lobby/

#MarkCurtis #Israel #Lobbyists #Media

@ApaulD
Excellent. Watched the whole thing & he nailed it. His last point, that politicians should NOT take jobs in the industries they regulate, who could disagree with that? Also loved Richard Dennis’ killer line that gas companies pay more in PR than they do in PRRT (the gas windfall profits tax). All that wining & dining & political donations don’t come cheap either… they’re playing us for mugs.

#AusPol #gasIndustry #PRRT #lobbyists

@ApaulD
Excellent. Watched the whole thing & he nailed it. His last point, that politicians should NOT take jobs in the industries they regulate, who could disagree with that? Also loved Richard Dennis’ killer line that gas companies pay more in PR than they do in PRRT (the gas windfall profits tax). All that wining & dining & political donations don’t come cheap either… they’re playing us for mugs.

#AusPol #gasIndustry #PRRT #lobbyists

#privacy for the #poor #transparency for the #rich #microsoft #lobbyists #billgates tries disadvantage ban #linux with #policy https://dwaves.de/2026/04/23/the-empire-tries-to-strikes-back-with-lobbyists-and-policy-under-the-disguise-of-protecting-the-user-the-revenge-of-bill-gates-lobbyists-microsoft-lobbyists-pushing-for-age-verification-of-os-instal/ #opensource #fsf #freesoftware #software #orwell

Tax laws and international economic laws of the future:
https://youtube.com/shorts/TuDCDCLiDzw?si=_8GOwpoLCRkjQcGA
#taxforbillionaires #lobbyists #lobbying @gabrielzucman.bsky.social @rcbregman #GlobalTaxFairnessFellowship #global #TaxFairness #fellowship #canada #usa #europe #africa

Tax laws and international economic laws of the future:
https://youtube.com/shorts/TuDCDCLiDzw?si=_8GOwpoLCRkjQcGA
#taxforbillionaires #lobbyists #lobbying @gabrielzucman.bsky.social @rcbregman #GlobalTaxFairnessFellowship #global #TaxFairness #fellowship #canada #usa #europe #africa