Killing Justice: A Case Study in Corporate Capture - Trócaire

See here for my latest article for @trocaire.bsky.social on #CorporateCapture and the sorry tale of the dismantling of the #CSDDD, the EU's flagship human rights due diligence law which it saw fit to blow up before it even came into effect...
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Dirty Business Shocking real-life drama about the muck in our water and a corporate scandal

Hmm. Sounds like you haven’t watched ‘Dirty Business’. Watch it, and then get back to us. #CorporateCapture

Seen 'Dirty Business'? Watch it here on Channel 4:
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#Enshittification of once a grass roots community driven #Twitter, now a top-down AI manipulated #Zionist censored NSA data harvesting tool.

Let that sink in.

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#Corporatecapture #auspol #Capitalism

#IpesFood New Report #HeadInTheCloud 📁⇄📁 HEAD IN THE CLOUD ⤵️ 👉 https://ipes-food.org/report/head-in-the-cloud 🚜👨🏽‍🌾 Challenging the False Promise of #DigitalAgriculture and Cultivating #Innovation from the Ground Up ✊🏽 ➡️ https://ipes-food.org/report-summary/head-in-the-cloud @viacampesina_en@movimientos.social #HeadInTheCloud #Digital #Agriculture #BigTech #BigAg #StopCorporateCapture

#IpesFood New Report #HeadInTheCloud
📁⇄📁 HEAD IN THE CLOUD ⤵️
👉 https://ipes-food.org/report/head-in-the-cloud
🚜👨🏽‍🌾 Challenging the False Promise of #DigitalAgriculture and Cultivating #Innovation from the Ground Up ✊🏽
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Max Schrems (@maxschrems@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image 😵 🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the I...

😵 🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases,basically a 360° seat swap #CorporateCapture mastodon.social/@maxschrems/...

... #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU - moves like this also undermine the public trust in the #RuleOfLaw and #Democratic institutions.

I cannot believe that they and their families are not ashamed of themselves down to their bones... 😞

#CorporateCapture is now complete in #AU how long before the democratic system starts collapsing like in the US.
The only way out is to send the #2PartyCartel to the curb!
#VoteIndependent
#VoteGreen
#auspol

@jorisluyendijk.bsky.social

''Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate''

1. bsky.app/profile/prop...
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3. bsky.app/profile/pbum... #Investigativejournalism #Opendata #US #Corporatecapture

There will be no #RegenerativeAgriculture, no mass #vaccine programmes, no #PeasantRights without freeing the #UN from its #CorporateCapture. #LaViaCampesina. @landworkersuk.bsky.social

OpenAI gets $110 billion in funding from a trio of tech powerhouses, led by Amazon ChatGPT maker OpenAI has received $110 billion in investments from Amazon, SoftBank and Nvidia, putting the technology company’s pre-money valuation at $730 billion.

Just how big is this bubble going to get... And when, oh when, is it going to burst?

I should have planted the vegetable garden already.

This is going to be a rough one.

#AIBubble
#ArtificialEconomy
#CorporateCapture
#GovernmentCreatedDisaster

House rejects bill requiring aircraft locator systems to prevent midair collisions like last year's Legislation to require all aircraft flying around busy airports to have key locator systems to prevent midair collisions failed to win approval in the House on Tuesday.

"The National Transportation Safety Board has been recommending such Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast systems to be installed since 2008."

#CorporateCapture
#PeopleOverProfits
#NeverStopFighting

If they were serious about 1.5million homes, the government would mandate #FactoryBuilt #ModularHomes which could hit clinate resilience and massively cut costs. But that does not enrich the developers. #CorporateCapture at its most blatant. Yes we are a bit cross about this.

Two men in suits are standing in front of a building labelled BusinessEurope. One is pointing to the building and saying to the other "And this is where new regulation gets made". Cartoon by @cartoonRalph

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Most #deregulation reforms discussed at today's 🇪🇺 summit are long-standing corporate #lobbying demands from CEFIC, the European Round Table for Industry (ERT) and BusinessEurope 🚨

BusinessEurope is currently lobbying for a 'social Omnibus' intended to weaken workers' rights 🤯

#CorporateCapture

Albo’s Waterloo: The Clayton’s PM and the Farrellisation of Labor Bernard Keane says Albanese is a manager, not a leader. Urban Wronski says the rot runs deeper — into the Farrellised machinery of a captured Clayton’s Labor.

“Albo’s Waterloo has arrived. It smells of horse shit, capsicum spray and moral bankruptcy.”

…and ain’t that the truth, Australia!

@albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social are on the nose!
#auspol #TheHollowMan
#CorporateCapture
urbanwronski.com/2026/02/11/a...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that only when a scandal erupts do politicians decide they need to do something about #secondjobs #revolvingdoors #lobbytransparency #corporatecapture

Here's a thought: why not get ahead of the game and put those rules in place now before the next scandal? 🇪🇺 🇬🇧

ICE-Cold Cash: Private Prison Companies and Executives Have Donated Millions to Members of Congress Find out if your representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

Private prison companies and executives donate millions to lawmakers overseeing ICE, embedding profit incentives into detention expansion and weakening democratic oversight. #Trump #ICE #PrivatePrisons #Detention #CorporateCapture #CivilLiberties #InTheseTimes

Can Anglian Water pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Can you make a yacht go faster by blowing into it sails?
The privatisation model has fattened some people, and we are now told that water industry profits are irreversibly threaded through the pensions industry. #corporatecapture

👨‍🔬 That’s why applying the #PolluterPaysPrinciple is also about protecting #Science.
When polluters are held accountable, independent science can inform policy without intimidation, manipulation, or #CorporateCapture.

If we (corporate powers) don't pay you enough to live on, that is on us, not you.

If we don't pay enough to the system to maintain it by paying taxes, we are again to blame.

If we leave society on life support, it prevents you from being able to effectively mobilize against us.

#CorporateCapture

⚙️ When bureaucracy and corporate power intertwine, democracy becomes theater—and policy becomes profit protection. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

READ NOW:
www.undergroundusa.com/p/why-bureau...

#CorporateCapture #DeepStateEconomics #PowerStructures #Healthcare #HealthInsurance

Billionaires out of politics. No corporate money. Term limits. No stock trading for anyone in office. Look where we are—Dem leaders are paralyzed because they’re owned by the same corporations that put this guy in power. This isn’t democracy. It’s capture. #EndCitizensUnited #CorporateCapture

Hi Jocelyn. I've signed up for this. Any chance you both will also do this lecture in either Dublin or Cork in the near future? It is such important work, as patents on seed and plant varieties continue apace #corporatecapture

Join us in civil-society dialogue ahead of @WHO's #EB158 hosted by Geneva Global Health Hub & Corporate Accountability on 👉20th January👈

'Harm reduction' to #CorporateCapture: How tobacco industry marketing & pharma acquisitions are jeopardising public health

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Join us in civil-society dialogue ahead of @WHO's #EB158 hosted by Geneva Global Health Hub & Corporate Accountability on 👉20th January👈

'Harm reduction' to #CorporateCapture: How tobacco industry marketing & pharma acquisitions are jeopardising public health

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This happens so often it is clearly @teamlabouruk.bsky.social standard operating procedure: stage 1 - design good policy to create a positive public message. Stage 2 - listen to #CorporateLobbyists. Stage 3 - Backtrack. No wonder their vote is shifting wholesale to greener parties. #CorporateCapture

Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England Critics say removing battery installation requirement will reduce amount homebuyers save on energy bills

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Here we go again. #CorporateCapture. Weak @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government caving in to #CorporateLobbying from developers. We despair! Surely this can't be true @simonlightwood.org.uk ??

#CorporateCapture
It's how we have unlimited $$ for spying, attacking & killing, w zero attempt at efficiency, along w gutting every program that helps ordinary Americans.
Profits -> lobbying & GOP donations -> new contracts for donors -> new profits -> new donations. Rinse & repeat

Billionaires buy senile president to kill AI regulations Billionaires buy senile president to kill AI regulations

AI regulation didn’t “fail.”
It was killed by billionaires who bought influence.
Thiel. Musk. Sacks. Andreessen.

Follow the money. 🤖💰
thedemlabs.org/2025/12/13/t...

#AI #Corruption #FollowTheMoney #AIRegulation #BillionaireClass #TechPower #DarkMoney #TechBros #CorporateCapture

July-December Book Reading Roundup Highlights from books I've read over the second half of the year

“This volume of #essays, edited by Bruce Campbell, is frankly a truly depressing read. It examines how a swath of sectors in #Canada is subject to varying degrees of #corporatecapture.” #books #BookSky #CanadaSky open.substack.com/pub/orbitpol...

Counterinsurgency: How Europe’s business lobby retook the Berlaymont | Euractiv The EU’s 'simplification' drive is turning into a bonanza for corporate lobbyists

Wow, even the lobbyists in Brussels are overwhelmed by all the new work they're getting thanks to the EU's so-called "simplification" drive (read: deregulation).

A senior lobby exec quoted says they’re "barely able to cope” 🤯

#deregulation #corporatecapture
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