Olivier Hoedeman

Donald Trump awarded controversial Fifa Peace Prize at World Cup draw The US president, who was beaten to the Nobel Peace Prize by Venezuelan democracy campaigner Maria Corina Machado, was presented with Fifa’s hastily arranged new award

FIFA really is the most corrupt organisation in the world

www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

GPAHE Brings You the Latest News in Far-Right Hate and Extremism This week: Trump’s escalating “traitor” rhetoric is driving a surge in threats; Project 2025 advances through federal purges and institutional breakdowns; Heritage is in open crisis after Kevin Robert...

This week: Trump’s escalating “traitor” rhetoric is driving a surge in threats; Heritage is in open crisis after Kevin Roberts defense of Nick Fuentes; neo-Nazi Billy Roper is pushing a whites-only “Ozarkia”; and Trump is mainstreaming European extremist rhetoric like “remigration” into U.S. policy.

The Digital Omnibus and open data: Risks for open projects The EU’s Digital Omnibus Proposal has sparked controversy, especially over the planned changes to the GDPR. One amendment to the Open Data Directive in particular could have serious consequences, pote...

The Digital Omnibus and open data: Risks for open projects - communia-association.org/2025/12/05/t... "One amendment to the Open Data Directive in particular could have serious consequences, potentially undermining open projects such as the Wikimedia projects."

New US security strategy lays bare European regime change plans While the Trump administration claims they no longer want the US to "prop up the entire world order like Atlas", in the same document they dictate to Europe what it can and can't do.

The US National Security Strategy released overnight has shocked Europeans.

In truth, its plans for Europe are just a reiteration of what the State Department already publicly posted back in May. But Europeans have not wanted to listen.

EU fines Elon Musk's X €120 million for first confirmed DSA breaches | Euractiv Digital Services Act penalty follows a two-year Commission look at X's blue check system, ad repository, and data access for researchers – but other probes continue

There will be many who claim this is about "free speech," but it's not—it's about X and Musk's shady business practices:

-meaningless blue checks w no real verification
-a lack of ad transparency
-not providing data access for researchers

...all req'd under DSA.

www.euractiv.com/news/eu-slap...

EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US US vice president says EU should not be ‘attacking American companies over garbage.’

EU fines X over DSA violations ↘️ www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

🚨 EUROPE IS BEING TAKEN
Brussels is entering dangerous territory as core environmental and social protections come under coordinated attack. Corporate lobbies are cashing in on political fractures – and with the Omnibus saga unfolding, the Commission is now driving the rollback.

The Commission's Industrial Carbon Management Forum #ICMForum starts MONDAY.

Decision makers and fossil lobbyists will plan how to roll-out #CCS, a proven-to-fail technofix that allows polluters to keep polluting at great public cost. New briefing: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
@ec.europa.eu

75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws A public relations firm for major U.S. polluters worked to dismantle EU laws that require large corporations to make plans for cutting emissions. The PR company Teneo undertook its work on behalf of t...

🔴 ‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws

U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans.

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

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I am hearing from multiple sources that the EU Commission is announcing its first DSA fine tomorrow against X on ad transparency, blue check & dark pattern, and researcher access to data.

The fine is in the "100s of millions of Euros."

Elon about to get big mad.

Red-tape cutting has become a ‘terrible political spectacle,’ EU’s Ribera says The European Commission’s No.2 official criticized a “Trumpist” approach to EU deregulation.

Red-tape cutting has become a ‘terrible political spectacle,’ EU’s #TeresaRibera says “ #Deregulation eliminates safeguards, it puts costs onto citizens and taxpayers, creates uncertainty, discourages investment” she said www.politico.eu/article/eu-r... #ClimateEmergency #vonderLeyen #FutureOfEurope

As the year winds down, I wanted to get an update on how things are going with the digital sovereignty effort in Europe.

Unfortunately, it’s facing challenges — and being coopted by interests that want to use it to promote deregulation and EU tech with virtually all the same problems as US tech.

🤚🌊 Hands off our water!

@ec.europa.eu plans to revise the Water Framework Directive after mining industry's request. This puts our drinking water, rivers, wetlands, and wildlife at risk.

Europe must protect its waters, not sell them for short-term industrial gain 🛑

#HandsOffNature #RESourceEU

Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials Co-founders’ acquisition of Venture Global shares before key permit granted draws scrutiny as pair deny wrongdoing

By @ninalakhani.bsky.social and me:

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"Red-tape cutting has become a ‘terrible political spectacle,’ EU’s Ribera says. The European Commission’s No.2 official criticized a “Trumpist” approach to EU #deregulation." 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

Red-tape cutting has become a ‘terrible political spectacle,’ EU’s Ribera says The European Commission’s No.2 official criticized a “Trumpist” approach to EU deregulation.

She is so right - @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu as to the current #deregulation drive! www.politico.eu/article/eu-r...

📣 NEWS! Last week a key paper defending #glyphosate, ghostwritten by #Monsanto (now #Bayer), is retracted after undermining safety decisions for 25 years!

👉 This should lead to the EU to reconsider glyphosate's permit on the EU market.

😡 But EC and Big Polluters team up to weaken safety rules

Oil and gas companies get an official avenue to shape EU decisions in their favour: the #ICMForum.

Drumming up billions of public money 💰 for a failed technofix designed to keep them in business 🛢️while spending millions on lobbying 💼 to get what they want #CCS

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...

Breaking: Analysis from @oilchange.bsky.social and @corporateeurope.org reveals €17.3 billion of public funds poured into carbon capture in Europe since 2001.

The result of letting fossil fuel lobbyists set the agenda via the annual #ICMForum, coming up 8-9 Dec

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/b...

☠️ New GMOs: The result of last night comes down to a massive handout of our foodchain to pesticide firms like Bayer and BASF.

This is a vast #deregulation:
🚨scrapping safety standards,
🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose
🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents

🔴 BREAKING: Analysis from @oilchange.bsky.social and @corporateeurope.org reveals €17+ billion of public funds poured into #CCS in Europe since 2001.

After decades of failures, fossil fuel ties keep influencing the EU Commission at the #ICMForum.

Read more 👇
www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa...

Under the guise of “security”, @ec.europa.eu's RESource package is sliding into a militarised mineral strategy that fast-tracks #mining and weakens the very laws meant to protect people and water.

Thrown under the omnibus: How the EU’s digital deregulation fuels US coercion The EU has proposed simplifying and softening its digital regulation. This will only make the bloc more vulnerable to the coercion of America’s big tech firms.

1/ The new “digital omnibus package” presented on 24 November aims to simplify EU digital rules — but what looks like deregulation may actually hand power to US Big Tech and expose Europe to coercion.  ecfr.eu/article/thro...

“Don’t worry, we are not trying to dismantle the #GreenDeal…

…Just a little bit”

A new #deregulation is on the way about one of the most sensitive framework in the EU.

Although they sell it as simplification to foster their industrial (non-)strategy, we know how this is going.

#WFD

On this World Pesticide Day, we launch a campaign for better protection against dangerous #pesticides. No deregulation, but better implementation. Towards a toxic pesticide-free age.
📝 Write to the EU Commissioners: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...
#NoPesticidesUseDay #Bhopal40

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

"The irony couldn’t be starker: the very programs best equipped to study the social and ethical implications of AI were being defunded, even as the university promoted the use of OpenAI’s products across campus"

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

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

Good work @euractiv.com on how the corporate lobby captured the European Commission and @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

And that what she calls simplification, is a deregulatory agenda to benefit corporations - Not workers, not the environment, not our communities

@epsu.bsky.social
@corporateeurope.org

The @ec.europa.eu has gone berserk. It wants to open the EU water framework directive to allow mining corporations to pollute water and increase costs for all, the interests of the few before that of all of us

Out of control

Folks - please repost, inform, resist

@epsu.bsky.social
@politico.eu