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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:https://t.co/aXTBmEAugd they looked into assistants becoming lobbyists:https://t.co/zGgr84oNgq article! even with quotes from @[email protected]/
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.’
https://t.co/8UhK8OCXyC
..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.
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."
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] https://t.co/OZIfVeLeIo
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 https://t.co/GTT00tuoBX
https://t.co/MhZdf3K8an
Breaking: Former Greek Finance Minister, and advocate for Julian Assange, Yanis Varoufakis 'brutally attacked by a group of thugs in Athens' | via @DiEM_25
https://t.co/LlQPBuELaM
✊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
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....
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👇
https://t.co/EIocqwgsrX
@GregoireGaonach ah. well, parltrack only scrapes once a day, every morning there should be everything fresh. why do you need to check 500x to check for an update? do you really need this more urgently than 24h? what's the usecase for that?