Keir Starmer has taken more freebies than all Labour leaders since Tony Blair | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-freebies-junkets-tottenham-hotspur-chelsea-coldplay-adele-google/

#Starmer
#Freebies
#CorporateInfluence
#CorporateInterests

‘Come clean’: Labour activists urge MPs to return donations from mystery firm | The Independent
#DonationsToMPs
#Momentum
#Labour
#Starmer
#MysteryFirm
#AntiSleaze
#Cooper
#Streeting
#Jarvis
#DarkMoney
#CorporateInterests
#Trickett

Exclusive: Momentum calls on three senior MPs to hand back money – and demands Keir Starmer commits to anti-sleaze measures

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-mps-donations-starmer-momentum-b2259415.html

‘Big Agricultural Firms are Plunging the Food System into Crisis’ – Byline Times
#Capitalism
#CostOfGreedCrisis
#BigAgriculturalFirms
#CorporateInterests
#Agribusiness

Influential agribusiness monopolists and food producers appear to be cynically using the war in Ukraine and the aftermath of the pandemic to exert political influence, writes Thomas Perrett

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/12/15/big-agricultural-firms-are-plunging-the-food-system-into-crisis/

@jeffjarvis @spfannenschmidt @Jelaniya @karenattiah I don’t think it’s fair to label them as transactional for questioning the the stance. Most ppl agree #Twitter provided valuable communication channels + disrupting that will hurt communities. But in the long term rebuilding those communities is possible on #Mastodon, free of #CorporateInterests. We as a community can work to incrementally make it better. #PowerToThePeople

@lanodan @DissidentKitty@sunbeam.city
Broadly, we cannot underestimate the amount of #funnyMoney going into defending the #corporateInterests of various entities, on #Wikipedia and the #corporateMedia/#newsMedia.

Its mind-boggling but 20 trillion dollars is not accounted for in the #USA since 911, if we think part of that is not controlling #information then we are kidding ourselves.

We've seen and experienced #censorship first hand.

A #society that values trash (#USD), gets trash - painfully simple.