Businesses should not be running government.
Government should not be running businesses.
I think we can all relate to the idea that those two things should be kept as far away from each other as possible, politically speaking.
#bureaucracy #corporations #corporatocracy #corruption #cronyCapitalism #cronyism #lobbying
Legal and Lobbying Costs Surge as Universities Face Trump Pressure
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/legal-lobbying-cost-university-college-trump.html
"With its controversial Bill 11, Premier Danielle Smith's hard-right government is effectively taking a wrecking ball to Canada's public health care system and the principles that underlay it."
"This could end Canadian medicare as we know it."
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Title: 'Pandora's box': Danielle Smith and insurance giants unleash attack on healthcare
Author: Nikolas Barry-Shaw
Publication: The Breach
April 16, 2026
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#Alberta #Canada #Healthcare #Lobbying
https://breachmedia.ca/pandoras-box-danielle-smith-and-insurance-giants-unleash-attack-on-healthcare/
✊ $130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year
｢ McMillan Cottom suggested that no public officials on the right or the left have perfected their messaging to align with anti-data center sentiments. It may be money standing in the Democrats’ way of fully embracing the data center resistance, she suggested, as many AI firms are donating hundreds of millions to campaigns to sway elections. ｣
Du jour au lendemain, les paysans qui cultivent la plante se sont vus interdire de commercialiser des produits alimentaires contenant du CBD. Ceux-ci dénoncent une décision jugée incohérente susceptible de fragiliser de nombreuses exploitations dépendantes de cette culture pour vivre.
Common Dreams: Watchdog’s Online Tracker Shows Which Candidates Are Being Showered With AI Industry’s Dark Money. “The website, known as ‘AI Money Watch,’ is using Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings to track spending by the largest AI super PAC, Leading the Future (LTF), which has raised $125 million for into this year’s midterms after being created last August to oust critics of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/12/common-dreams-watchdogs-online-tracker-shows-which-candidates-are-being-showered-with-ai-industrys-dark-money/
Common Dreams: Watchdog’s Online Tracker Shows Which Candidates Are Being Showered With AI Industry’s Dark Money. “The website, known as ‘AI Money Watch,’ is using Federal Electio…
Brilliant analysis by @corporateeurope and @lobbycontrol of how much money large corporations spend on influencing laws in Europe.
No surprise: #BigTech dominates again.
I mean the @EUCommission really should not grant any company 1-2 high-level #lobbying meetings every month for 12 years straight. This can only lead to dangerous over-representation.
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/eu-corporate-lobby-league-2026
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