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Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/2128847/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2128847/</a> Done right, Hegseth’s personnel reforms can fix broken military <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/D%C3%B8d" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Død</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/enewsletter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enewsletter</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegseth</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MilitaryReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilitaryReform</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pentagon</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PeteHegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeteHegseth</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RevolvingDoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevolvingDoor</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SecretaryOfDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SecretaryOfDefense</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USMilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USMilitary</a>

Extinction the Sixth<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bicmay</a> I'm sure he can get a new job if he wants one. The industries he inspected are always hiring. <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/revolvingdoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#revolvingdoor</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/2055366/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2055366/</a> Elon Musk’s X Seeks a New PR Leader to Bolster Its Image <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/advertiser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#advertiser</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BusinessInsider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BusinessInsider</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/company" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#company</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DaveHeinzinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DaveHeinzinger</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HaymakerGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HaymakerGroup</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/image" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#image</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MultiplePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MultiplePeople</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/person" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#person</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/platform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#platform</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Relationship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Relationship</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/reporter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reporter</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RevolvingDoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevolvingDoor</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/role" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#role</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/year" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#year</a>

Amnesty in Salisbury & South WiltshireArms trade news Grim reading in Campaign Against the Arms Trade’s latest newsletterMay 2025The CAAT Newsletter (Spring 2025, Issue 272) has details of what’s happening in the world of arms sales a world in which the UK is a big player. Our previous post discussed the continuing sale of arms to Israel which is subject to an Appeal Court hearing starting on 13th. Also we mentioned the role of the RAF in carrying out hundreds of flights over Gaza and quite what is being done with the information gleaned is not revealed.Arms sales are important for several reasons. Weapons have an enormous capacity to do great harm in the wrong hands. Governments need to exert great control over licensing to ensure that arms do not fall into such hands. British governments are frequently to be heard claiming it exercises ‘robust’ controls. It is doubtful that this is the case and <a href="https://caat.org.uk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CAAT </a>have often noted the considerable use of open licences which means little effective control exists.The current Labour government has a policy of growth which seems to dominate thinking. As the court case will reveal, and papers have already revealed, this seems to trump considerations of human rights. CAAT News has the following examples:<ul><li>The Defence Secretary has held meetings with counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Turkey to discuss opportunities for expanding military cooperation which is likely to involve arms sales. Both countries have woeful human rights records. Saudi has a full array of violations including public executions, use of torture, restrictions on women’s rights and repression of any opposition or free speech. Turkey has carried out baseless prosecutions against journalists, human rights defenders and opposition leaders, thousands of whom are in gaol.</li><li>Eurofighter sales – which the UK co-produces – are planned for Qatar and Turkey. The latter is involved in bombing Kurdish groups in its own country and Iraq. Qatar is another repressive Gulf state and is highly corrupt.</li><li>We have noted before the question of the Revolving Door where politicians, ministers, senior civil servants and military personnel leave their posts and head off for lucrative appointments/directorships/consultancies with arms firms. It is an open invitation for corruption and the ACOBA system seems powerless to stop it. The <a href="https://adsgroup.org.uk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Aerospace, Defence and Security Group</a>, (ADS) the trade body for the defence industry representing all of the major arms makers, holds an annual dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel in which, in the words of CAAT ‘The dinner’s purpose is to introduce them to one another and allow them to schmooze and entertain their powerful friends from Parliament and the Civil Service‘ … These kinds of dinners are where relationships are formed and built and where the next round of arms deals are made, over fine food and wines.’</li><li>And it doesn’t end there. The Defence and Security Equipment International (<a href="https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/events/dsei/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DSEI</a>) resumes in September at the ExCel Centre in London. This may be the largest such exhibition in the world. It is popular because the UK government invites representatives from a wide range of countries including those with appalling human rights records, some even on its own watch list. The thousands of attendees will be met by ‘a cast of compliant senior civil servants and politicians on hand to make sure things run smoothly’ (CAAT).</li><li>… or even there because the Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre is to host <a href="https://www.securityandpolicing.co.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Security and Policing </a>run by the Home Office. Again, a range of countries with dreadful human rights are cordially invited to view the latest in surveillance, tear gas and ammunition. Journalists are banned. Britain seems happy to be host to regimes who use this equipment to repress and intimidate oppositions, journalists or human rights people. </li></ul>Growth or rights?The government seems keen to actively support these activities and to do all it can to promote arms and surveillance equipment to repressive regimes. It does this while piously claiming that:This Government is fully committed to the protection of human rights both at home and abroad. We are committed to the international human rights framework and the important role that multilateral organisations like the Council of Europe play in upholding it. (Ministry of Justice, November 2024, ref: CP 1192) <a href="https://salisburyai.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-2.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> It is hard to square the multi-level activities to promote arms sales and in the process currying favour with some of the world’s worst regimes, with their stated desire to be upholders of human rights and the wellbeing of those at the end of it all. While politicians, civil servants, military brass and ministers ‘schmooze’ with the arms manufacturers in expensive London hotels, it may be hard for them to empathise with those who have been bombed, starved, driven from their homes or incarcerated, tortured or executed for no reason. All facilitated by the weapons and equipment they so admire whilst quaffing the Bollinger. Is it growth above all else? Sources include: CAAT, The Canary, Amnesty<ul><li><a class="" href="https://salisburyai.com/2025/05/05/anti-protest-law-modified/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anti-protest law modified</a></li><li><a class="" href="https://salisburyai.com/2025/05/04/vigil-74/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vigil 74</a></li><li><a class="" href="https://salisburyai.com/2025/05/04/arms-trade-news-4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arms trade news</a></li><li><a class="" href="https://salisburyai.com/2025/05/03/high-court-to-decide-on-arms-to-israel/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">High Court to decide on arms to Israel</a></li><li><a class="" href="https://salisburyai.com/2025/05/02/market-stall-9/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Market stall</a></li></ul> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/arms-fair/" target="_blank">#armsFair</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/arms-sales/" target="_blank">#armsSales</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/caat/" target="_blank">#CAAT</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/dsei/" target="_blank">#DSEI</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/farnborough/" target="_blank">#Farnborough</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/government/" target="_blank">#government</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/police-and-security/" target="_blank">#PoliceAndSecurity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/revolving-door/" target="_blank">#revolvingDoor</a>

Green House Think TankThe Green Party of England and Wales has created a 'Green Business Group' where corporation can pay £500-1200 to become 'members' and get free conference passes and meetings with MPs/Councillors... <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/119/452/original/Green_Business_Network_newsletter_jan_feb25.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/119/452/original/Green_Business_Network_newsletter_jan_feb25.pdf</a> What will this mean for the party's internal democracy, governance, or how responsive its new MPs are to it's membership...? <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/greenpartyofenglandandwales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greenpartyofenglandandwales</a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/GPEW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GPEW</a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/corporateinfluence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporateinfluence</a> <a href="https://greennet.social/tags/revolvingdoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#revolvingdoor</a>

Juggling With Eggs“We know that carbon emissions are the root cause of environmental destabilisation. They are a key driver of increasingly extreme weather patterns, food price inflation, and water shortages. So fossil fuel enablers should be made pariahs, not policymakers in the highest levels of government”Clive Lewis, Labour MP <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FossilFuelLobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuelLobby</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tories</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOil</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RevolvingDoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevolvingDoor</a><a href="https://theferret.scot/revolving-door-fossil-fuel-industry-uk-government/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theferret.scot/revolving-door-fossil-fuel-industry-uk-government/</a>?

LordWoolamalooGoing around and around and around... <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/53565700866/in/photostream/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/53565700866/in/photostream/</a>Revolving door at night, Haymarket Square<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Edinburgh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EdinburghByNight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdinburghByNight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Edimbourg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Edimbourg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NightPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NightPhotography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/photographie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photographie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/door" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#door</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/porte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#porte</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RevolvingDoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevolvingDoor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Haymarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Haymarket</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HaymarketSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HaymarketSquare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#architecture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BlackAndWhitePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackAndWhitePhotography</a>

Miro CollasEx-commissioner for facial recognition tech joins Facewatch firm he approved | Facial recognition | The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/10/ex-commissioner-for-facial-recognition-tech-joins-facewatch-firm-he-approved" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/10/ex-commissioner-for-facial-recognition-tech-joins-facewatch-firm-he-approved</a>"Critics say Fraser Samson hiring is ‘outrageous conflict of interest’ as monitoring technology is rolled out in UK high streets"<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevolvingDoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevolvingDoor</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FacialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FacialRecognition</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://mastodon.social/@opensecrets" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@opensecrets</a> "The Department of Defense’s five biggest contractors — <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LockheedMartin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LockheedMartin</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boeing</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Raytheon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Raytheon</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeneralDynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralDynamics</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthropGrumman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthropGrumman</a> — all reported 'strong' first quarters, even as all but Boeing spent less on federal lobbying in the first quarter of 2023 than in recent years." <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/05/revolving-door-lobbyists-help-defense-contractors-get-off-to-strong-start-in-2023" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/05/revolving-door-lobbyists-help-defense-contractors-get-off-to-strong-start-in-2023</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RevolvingDoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevolvingDoor</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lobbyists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lobbyists</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EndlessWar</a>

Cory DoctorowThe second kind of regulatory capture is the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/RevolvingDoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevolvingDoor</a>: when an executive from industry rotates into a role in government, where they are expected to guard the public interest from their former employers. There's some of this in every presidential administration - think of Obama's ex-<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Morganstanley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Morganstanley</a> and ex-<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/GoldmanSachs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoldmanSachs</a> finance officials. 10/

Bill DobieLove me some Chicago snow. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/revolvingdoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#revolvingdoor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/snow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chicago</a>

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