@gigi I guess that would depend, in part, on how many folks at @EUCommission are looking to work at those corporations as their next gig.
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"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 
Middle East EyeHow Abu Dhabi built an axis of secessionists across the regionFrom North Africa to the Gulf, the UAE has aggressively expanded its counter-revolutionary strategy in the wake of the Arab Spring
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Long read: How a peripheral state can leverage its wealth, strategic geography and alliances to exert outsized influence on regional and global affairs
"How the UAE can simultaneously be both a subject of imperialism and an agent of imperialist practices within its spheres of influence while challenging traditional imperialist actors": https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-emerging-sub-imperial-role-of-the-united-arab-emirates-in-africa
#revolvingdoors alert! Timmermans' chief of staff, Diederik Samsom, has moved to Gasunie.
Samsom had a key role in far-reaching policies including #EGD and Gasunie benefited from gas being kept a transitional fuel and public money for #falsesolutions #hydrogen #ccs
We need #FossilFreePolitics
Post election time: in the coming weeks, we as lobby watchdogs will closely be watching outgoing & incoming MEPs, Commissioners & Commission officials to disclose possible conflicts of interest. Please reach out if you have any hints. @lobbyctrl_tech @corporateeurope #revolvingdoors
Corporations: just let us regulate ourselves, it’ll be fine…
Also corporations: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_slow_down/
Regulate the absolute living crap out of the these bastards. (But who’s going to when the folks who should be regulating are having drinks with them at the pub every evening and eyeing their next gigs at them?*)
* Did you know Google’s lobbying offices are literally round the corner from the European Parliament?
redditYoutube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.Posted in r/youtube by u/vk6_ • 9,498 points and 932 comments