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Spreading datalove in the European Union. Best free database on the EP with history function.

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Since it seems i have lost access to Twitter using my client due to the API being closed down i will stop reading and posting on twitter. i will rarely come to visit here using a browser, unless the API access is restored. Please follow me to the fediverse.
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finally the fine people of follow the money took up my call to investigate some aspects of the power of the assistants:parltrack.org/blog/balancing… they looked into assistants becoming lobbyists:ftm.eu/articles/corporate-lo… article! even with quotes from @[email protected]/
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Vicky Cann, a campaigner for the lobbying watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory, added: ‘MEP assistants are an under-studied group in the Brussels Bubble, yet some have a very detailed knowledge of EU files, invaluable for a corporate lobby group.’ ftm.eu/articles/corporate-lo…
From Huawei to Shell: corporate lobbies unimpededly recruit former EU Parliament staff

From Huawei to Shell: corporate lobbies unimpededly recruit former EU Parliament staff

The European Parliament presents hardly any obstacles to former MEP assistants who wish to become lobbyists. There are no consequences for former staff who disregard the duty to report new work for...

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we need not only to study them, but also strengthen the rules granting more transparency and **accountability** ftm.eu/articles/corporate-lo…
From Huawei to Shell: corporate lobbies unimpededly recruit former EU Parliament staff

From Huawei to Shell: corporate lobbies unimpededly recruit former EU Parliament staff

The European Parliament presents hardly any obstacles to former MEP assistants who wish to become lobbyists. There are no consequences for former staff who disregard the duty to report new work for...

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..the influence of MEP assistants[..] the work involved is more than keeping track [..] of appointments&fetching coffee. [they] play a key role in preparing EU legislation. They draft the amendments [..] and sometimes play a role in the negotiations with Member States&Commission.
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#FreeAssangeNOW
Image from Stella Assange (@Stella_Assange)
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Hello Dutch press: start typing... fas.org/blogs/security/2023/…
Was There a U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accident At a Dutch Air Base? [no, it was training, see update...

Was There a U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accident At a Dutch Air Base? [no, it was training, see update...

A photo in a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) student briefing from 2022 shows four people inspecting what appears to be a damaged B61 nuclear bomb.

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so google destroys evidence, arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court

Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court

Google in trouble for auto-deleting chats needed as evidence in Epic Games case.

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some good recommendations in the EUROISPA policy paper on #chatcontrol euroispa.org/2022/09/positio…
Position Paper on the Proposal for a Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child...

Position Paper on the Proposal for a Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child...

14 September 2022 – EuroISPA publishes its Position Paper expressing concerns about the Proposal for a Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse. The document highlights...

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Judges in America are like: "yes this thing is good for the country, the world, and all humanity, while harming no one. However, the ruling class can't extract money from it so therefore it is illegal."
Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) profile picturePublishers Weekly@PublishersWkly24 Mar 2023
BREAKING: A federal judge has decided in favor of four publishers in the long-awaited copyright case Hachette v. Internet Archive. "There is nothing transformative about IA's copying and unauthorized lending of the works in the suit," the judge writes. This story is developing.
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Former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld launched failed April 2004 assault on Iraq town of Fallujah before marines were ready because it had become "a symbol of resistance that dominated international headlines" | Report by Julian Assange [2007] wikileaks.org/wiki/Classifie…
Image from WikiLeaks (@wikileaks)
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How the US military covered up gunning down two @Reuters journalists in Iraq (known as the 'Collateral Murder' incident) which was later revealed by Julian Assange | Guardian #CollateralMurder #IraqWar collateralmurder.wikileaks.o… theguardian.com/us-news/2020…
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How the media failed Julian Assange harpers.org/archive/2023/03/…
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Breaking: Former Greek Finance Minister, and advocate for Julian Assange, Yanis Varoufakis 'brutally attacked by a group of thugs in Athens' | via @DiEM_25 diem25.org/yanis-varoufakis-…
Yanis Varoufakis brutally attacked by group of thugs in Athens - DiEM25 Communications

Yanis Varoufakis brutally attacked by group of thugs in Athens - DiEM25 Communications

Yanis Varoufakis has been brutally attacked at a restaurant in Athens

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✊100k + people are calling to kick fossil fuel industry out of politics Time for decision makers to put #PeopleOverPolluters & say NO to fossil fuel influence via: 👉A public hearing to hold them accountable 👉Removal of lobbying badges 👉Conflict of interest framework
Petition demands: 1. A public hearing to hold fossil fuel companies ACCOUNTABLE for the cost of living crisis 2. REVOKE THEIR ACCESS to EU institutions, starting with lobbying badges 3. A conflict of interest framework across EU institutions on climate & energy policy 4. An EU task force of climate & social ADVISORS MADE OF NGOs, energy poverty groups and trade unions

ALT Petition demands: 1. A public hearing to hold fossil fuel companies ACCOUNTABLE for the cost of living crisis 2. REVOKE THEIR ACCESS to EU institutions, starting with lobbying badges 3. A conflict of interest framework across EU institutions on climate & energy policy 4. An EU task force of climate & social ADVISORS MADE OF NGOs, energy poverty groups and trade unions

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why is there someone crawling all of parltacks pages using the tor onion service? please stop and just download the dumps directly. pls retweet for visibility....
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Was für eine Freude: Unser #Explainer-Video zum #CumEx-Skandal @WDRinvestigativ wurde inzwischen mehr als 200.000 Mal aufgerufen! Für alle, die interessiert, was die Politik mit dem größten deutschen #Steuerskandal zu tun hat👇 youtube.com/watch?v=pis6YveI…
CumEx: Wie dein Steuergeld gestohlen wurde und die Politik es geschehen ließ | Investigativ | WDR

CumEx: Wie dein Steuergeld gestohlen wurde und die Politik es geschehen ließ | Investigativ | WDR

Es ist der größte Steuerraub der deutschen Geschichte: CumEx. Schät...

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Oh, so now taking money from Russia to propose pro-Russian policies is wrong?!? What next? Making illegal to own stock in companies directly impacted by your legislation?? This is absurd!! Whatever happened to capitalism!?
Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) profile pictureIgor Sushko
@igorsushko4 Feb 2023
🚨 BOMBSHELL: Leaked emails give insight into the Kremlin operation that bribed European Union politicians to support Russia's annexation of Crimea in Ukraine. occrp.org/en/investigations/…
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PSA unsure how this Twitter API closure will affect the parltrack twitter account, but it might happen that this means a full move to [email protected] please follow us there
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