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America must also deal with the potential for corruption, both illegal in the case of the diversion of Teamsters’ pension resources and legal in the campaign contributions provided by the pharmaceutical lobby to complaisant members of Congress.
The environmental lobby groups want the next treaty to go much further than Kyoto, which is already setting the world back $180 billion a year.
How deep the zealots and the coal lobby will be able to make that point depends partly on the barriers built by the rest of us.
True, in the endgame of the talks, the US caved in to its wealthy and powerful agribusiness lobby.
They thus provide a vehicle for ordinary people to lobby for fairer rules and policies, not only in their own countries but also in others.
As a result, the UMNO finds itself squeezed between an Islamic lobby that presses for greater “Talibanization” of the country and the rising voices of international critics, who cannot be ignored, because the party needs both radical supporters and foreign investors to stay in power.
The ever-active anti-Euro lobby has now spawned a new grouping called “NO”, led by Lord David Owen, the former foreign secretary, to oppose not just membership of the euro, but even the holding of a referendum on the issue.
The political influence of financial donors and lobby groups add to the challenge.
Faced with a rapidly growing health crisis, the British authorities – equipped with little scientific understanding of the disease, and under pressure from a powerful industrial lobby – made a fatal mistake.
Yet the political power of the gun lobby, which opposes limits even on assault weapons, has blocked the adoption of measures that would boost public safety.
It includes extrication from the Iraqi morass and lifting its burden from America’s foreign policy, resolving the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict while confronting the “hawkish” Israel lobby, using dialogue to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions and wean Syria from its radical agenda – thereby dissolving the region’s “axis of evil” (Iran-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas) – freeing Lebanon from Syria’s grip, and pushing for an Israel-Syria peace.
For example, the real-estate lobby in the US obviously has no desire to see government support for housing diminish, despite the fact that the US probably has far more housing stock than it can afford.
Similarly, the export lobby in China has no interest in a strong renminbi, even though it is in China’s long-term interest to let its currency appreciate.
As people pursue boycotts and disinvestment, lobby for legislation, and activate social-media campaigns with growing sophistication, they are increasingly able to influence companies’ operational and strategic decision-making, thereby imposing checks and balances on today’s enormous accretions of private power.
When it comes to the so-called Israel lobby in Washington, which is well organized and very well funded, evangelical Christians play an important part as well.
Bank executives who hold large numbers of these bonds would have an incentive to lobby to dilute the bonds’ guarantee.
Indeed, by permitting them to lobby more openly, democracy made them stronger.
One big reason is the gun lobby, which is one of the most heavily funded in America.
But few such restrictions have been legislated – or have been left unchallenged by the gun lobby when they are.
The pro-bank lobby groups are positioning themselves to argue that the new resolution powers under Dodd-Frank have ended the too-big-to-fail problem, and we can expect a public-relations drive in this direction early in the new year.
One reason is that the EU farmers’ lobby has ensured that these countries’ access to European markets for competitive exports like agricultural produce remains limited.
Rio’s Unsustainable NonsenseNEW YORK – If George Orwell were alive today, he would be irritated, and then shocked, by the cynical way in which every lobby with an axe to grind and money to burn has hitched its wagon to the alluring phrase “sustainable development.”
Or, to put it differently, special interests have become so powerful and entrenched that any attempt at reform brings out a powerful lobby against it.
America’s under-regulated for-profit universities excel in two dimensions: the ability to exploit young people from poor backgrounds, charging them high fees without delivering anything of value, and the ability to lobby for government money without regulation and to continue their exploitative practices.
Such efforts must include a willingness to engage the public in discussions on science-based issues, a desire to lobby the government for support, and, perhaps most importantly, a commitment to pursue research that focuses on critical social and economic problems -- that is, agendas that allow scientists to help their nations build stronger and more sustainable societies.
The Out lobby therefore enjoyed a virtual monopoly of public attention.
Moreover, sports teams surely lobby governments as aggressively as any big business.
If I were raped in Uppsala, where Assange is alleged to have committed his crime, I could not expect top prosecutors to lobby governments to arrest my assailant.
In Mexico, for example, CPJ worked with reporters and advocacy groups to lobby the national government to treat attacks on journalists as federal offenses – and to bypass state-level law enforcement agencies when corruption is suspected.
The fund is needed because, despite the arguments of the green-energy lobby and climate activists, today’s inefficient, intermittent solar and wind sources are not yet ready to take over from fossil fuels.
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