"From North Africa to the Gulf, the UAE has aggressively expanded its counter-revolutionary strategy in the wake of the Arab Spring"
by Andreas Krieg: https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/abu-dhabi-built-axis-secessionists-across-region-how 
The @eppgroup tonight showed it's not interested in compromise politics but in killing civil society + environmental policies. The @EUCommission announced a #LIFE Programm statement for tomorrow. EPP & @ecrgroup wanted a vote and despite replacing several (EPP: 6) MEPs lost 40:41. Why risking the anyhow too small funding instrument for nature instead of regulating corporate lobby and introducing conflict of interest rules?! #EUGreenDeal #Democracy #Lobbying #NGOs #Brandmauer
Clean energy spending boosts GOP districts. But lawmakers are keeping quiet as Trump targets incentives https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/clean-energy-spending-republicans-trump #HouseofRepresentatives #Trumpadministration #Bidenadministration #Climatecrisis #DonaldTrump #Republicans #Environment #USpolitics #Employment #Democrats #Lobbying #Energy #USnews
"Delaware just passed a law this week that would shield tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk from an array of potential misconduct, which could impact active litigation against them alleging theft from shareholders. The bill was crafted by Democratic governor Matt Meyer’s office in direct consultation from Meta’s own legal team and a roster of corporate defense lawyers representing both billionaires, according to documents released last week by CNBC.
Those outside lawyers consulted by the governor include an attorney at a firm that recently represented Meta in a Delaware court and Leon Strine, a former Delaware Supreme Court justice who now works at a major defense side law firm, Wachtell Lipton. The firm is currently defending Mark Zuckerberg against an ongoing shareholder lawsuit over an improper settlement Meta struck in 2019 regarding the Cambridge Analytica data breach.
Separate from that court case, Meta is currently being investigated for potential wrongdoing by shareholders who recently filed multiple “books and records” requests to obtain company documents. Changes in the new law would shut off legal avenues for any evidence in those documents to lead to lawsuits that could be worth billions of dollars in violations.
The bill makes it easier for companies to deny disclosure requests and hand over fewer internal documents. Additionally, the criteria for an improper transaction that may be reviewed by a Delaware court will be much more lenient to corporate executives. As long as a majority of so-called independent directors approve a deal, without shareholder input, executives won’t be subject to liability for potential conflicts of interest."
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/meta-delaware-musk-zuckerberg-litigation
The SEC has quietly dismissed several major crypto enforcement cases amid a 400% increase in industry lobbying spending, signaling potential regulatory shifts.The U.S. 
https://redrobot.online/2025/03/sec-drops-high-profile-crypto-cases-as-lobbying-efforts-surge/
What's depressing me today is realizing that I as an 18yo were right.
When I came to the US, I was explained the concept of lobbying. Coming from a post-soviet country, where I didn't get a stipend to a dream college because all the "full-rides" were bribed for by parents with money, I thought to myself - "lobbying's just bribery with extra steps, right?"
Living in the US for 10 years, realizing that I understood it correctly as a teenager is pretty depressing.
Le capitalisme c'est la corruption.
La corruption c'est le capitalisme.
(et l'Union Européenne c'est le projet capitaliste à l'état chimiquement pur, et la corruption institutionnalisée.)
Le capitalisme est la corruption.
La corruption est le capitalisme.
En plus de nous foutre de la pub (même en étant abonné! 
#carbofascisme #lobbying #mediasdelabourgeoisie
Public Senat
Scandale des eaux en bouteille : la commission d’enquête va saisir Gérard Larcher pour parjure, après l’audition de la PDG de Nestlé Water
https://mcinformactions.net/scandale-des-eaux-en-bouteille-la-commission-d-enquete-va-saisir-gerard-larcher
#Nestle #eaux #forages #contrex #vittel #lobbying
#Policy and #Law being captured through #lobbying to promote the will of the investors above the will of the people just makes for #privatized #aristocracy at this point.
It's not about democracy or law, but to game it and the constituency along with it in order to inject sweet, sweet #capital directly into the groin.
The body harmed being mother #earth, as the #petroleum and #oil industry have so aptly proven. For how many decades have they manipulated narratives to lie about #climatechange?
@heiseonline Die deutsche #Wirtschaft beauftragt einen wirtschaftsnahen Verein ein Papier zu schreiben, das behauptet, #KI führe zu Wirtschaftswachstum, während die deutsche Wirtschaft Regierung &EU lobbyiert, ihnen Milliarden an öffentlichen Geldern für deren KI-Entwicklung zu schenken.
Geld das man auch in Schulen, Fahrradwege, Krankenhäuser, oder -- no way! -- den Kampf gegen die Klimakatastrophe verwenden könnte.
Da hätte ich mir vom Autor mehr kritische Einordnung gewünscht. #lobbying
#klocknerverhindern und das völlig zu recht, siehe 2019, als sie
mit Nestlés Deutschland-Chef Marc-Aurel Boersch vor der Kamera stand.
Hier die heute-show von damals dazu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKkQmlm174k
und etwas seriöser der Spiegel
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ministerin-julia-kloeckner-wegen-nestle-video-in-der-kritik-a-1271041.html
What rules apply to lobbying the European Parliament?
A fresh corruption investigation hit the European Parliament this week as arrests were made by the Belgian authorities and the offices of Chinese telco Huawei were searched.
But what are the rules lobbying in the European Parliament?
Comment #Huawei fait du #lobbying à Bruxelles: Le géant chinois de la technologie a de nombreux doigts dans la main. https://www.euractiv.fr/section/all/news/huaweis-tentacles-in-brussels/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it
"Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that the government is to launch a "media war room" to target Palestine content online, in the latest attempt to propagate pro-Israel narratives on internet platforms."
Israel is scared. Despite millions of dollars in #lobbying, buying media, #politicians and #SocialMedia, the truth is coming out. Millions of #activists around the world expose the crimes of #Israel to people of the world.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israels-new-media-war-room-targets-palestine-content
#Propaganda #Genocide #Hasbara #Palestine #HasbaraArmy @palestine @israel
Pollution de l'eau : les labos pharmaceutiques refusent de payer
Efpia https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_europ%C3%A9enne_des_associations_et_industries_pharmaceutiques a saisi la justice européenne pour contester la directive qui vise à améliorer le traitement des eaux usées avant leur rejet dans la nature. https://www.20min.ch/fr/story/europe-les-labos-pharmaceutiques-ne-veulent-pas-payer-la-depollution-103298818 L'EFPIA avait poussé l'UE à obtenir des exemptions qui protégeraient ses membres des poursuites en cas de problèmes avec de nouveaux vaccins contre le coronavirus.
