lobbies

Monster typhoon Ragasa slams southern China and Hong Kong, floods hotel lobbies, kills three in Philippines, thousands left homeless

BREAKING 🚨 Super Typhoon Ragasa: Video shows floodwaters surging into the lobby of the Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel in Hong Kong pic.twitter.com/DVTz8Ml1ev — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 24, 2025 Live view of Hong Kong. Southern Chinese cities scaled back many aspects of daily life on Tuesday as they braced for Super Typhoon Ragasa, one of …

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50 Cent lobbies congress for black owned liquor industry.

A surprise appearance at the Capitol. 50 Cent met with House members from both sides of the aisle. ⁦@50cent⁩ is there to boost opportunities for Black entrepreneurs and to promote more Black inclusion in the liquor and music industries. CC: ⁦@AriMelber⁩ pic.twitter.com/mZnDsCy8OH — MS NOW (@MSNOWNews) June 5, 2024

China lobbies congress behind closed doors to save Tiktok.

The Chinese Embassy has held meetings with congressional staff to lobby against the legislation that would force a sale of TikTok, according to two of the Capitol Hill staffers. TikTok, which is owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, has repeatedly denied a relationship with the Chinese government and sought to distance itself from its Chinese …

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Professor Sachs criticizes US political system as plutocratic, with powerful lobbies dominating public policy, no public debate, and no deliberative democracy.

Listen to Professor Jeffrey Sachs's damning indictment of the US political system: "US politics is basically a plutocratic state where public policy has been taken over by several powerful lobbies, each one devoted to its specific area (…) Democrats and Republicans, by the… pic.twitter.com/kqExPiBuAT — COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) June 19, 2023

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