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  • ...Portal|Arms Trade Lobbying]] | [[Brexit Portal|Brexit]] | [[Climate_Portal|Climate]] | [[Counter-Terrorism Portal|Counter-Terrorism]] | [http://powerbase.info ...ic the stories about the undercover officers who have been exposed and the groups they spied upon. We also look at the police officers and units involved and
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  • ...tch">SourceWatch, [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_groups Front Groups], SourceWatch website, accessed 20 March 2015</ref> ...spin are anything other than simple corporate [[Propaganda]]. These front groups are often very politically active; holding news conferences, publishing new
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  • ...> Pfizer is a member of one of the most important global corporate lobby groups, the International Chamber of Commerce. <ref>"[http://www.iccwbo.org/id1969 Other corporations and corporate lobby groups that have funded the LM network are [[Cadbury Schweppes]], [[IBM]], [[Novar
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  • The '''European Sound Climate Policy Coalition''' is a nascent front group set up by the [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] ...ordinary American plan to destroy Europe's support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change.
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  • ...erences, donations to parties, lobbying, PR, the creation and use of front groups, seemingly independent institutes and apparently enlightened business netwo ...tish Power]] are pretty well integrated into the European and global lobby groups. Their integration into global governance means that the macro level terms
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  • {{Template:Climate badge}} ...nd vociferous anti-environmental think tanks in Washington, it is the main climate change-sceptical organisation in Washington as well as promoting "Sound Sci
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  • {{Template:Climate badge}} ...'every journalist, scientist and politician needs to know - that denial of climate change is not something based on healthy scientific scepticism and debate:
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  • It is often called the Godfather of Washington neoconservative lobby groups and is America's richest, largest and most influential think tank. It was r *'''Climate:''' Avid critic of the [[Kyoto protocol]].
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  • ...site, accessed March 25 2009</ref> founded CDFE in 1974 along with two gun groups: Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and the Second Ame ...k" where they talk about Rainforest Action Network's ties to other radical groups and "their anti-capitalist ideology, and their lawless and dangerous activi
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  • ...mmunist Party]], contributors to [[LM]]/[[Living Marxism]] , and the RCP's front group, the [[Irish Freedom Movement]], which [[Fiona Fox]] at one time head ...ations.htm Poisonous Dummies]), or by [[Living Marxism]] network connected groups, eg the [[Institute of Ideas]] ([http://www.instituteofideas.com/Sub/ed/boo
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  • Like other "[[sound science]]" front groups, its real mission is to disparage the science upon which environmental safe ...Steve Milloy]]'s [[The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition]] (TASSC), a front group created to assist the tobacco industry in its fight against regulatio
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  • ...iving Marxism]]. [[Global Futures]] appears to be one of a series of front groups generated by the political network of individuals involved with [[LM]] and ...rubella (MMR) controversy reveals some of the key features of the cultural climate affecting matters of health and illness in contemporary society. A high lev
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  • ...as expressed not only by stakeholders representing organic and GM interest groups, but by those who would be regarded as supporters and natural allies of the ...l views of consumers and restore the trust of all the consumer and citizen groups that you have now lost on the GM food issue.'
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  • ...reer seems never to have carried out any empirical research on 'terrorist' groups. Whilst at Cardiff he published his first book, ''Social Movement'' (1971)
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  • .../funding_climate_deniers.pdf Concealing their sources - who funds Europe's climate change deniers?], CEO Report p.3,Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> Some unkno ==Views on Climate Change==
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  • ...hnology', saying it wants to "combat the misinformation put out by radical groups' who oppose genetic engineering". It claims this technology is actually 'sa ...group, of ([http://www.monsanto.co.uk/news/2001/march2001/140301.html U.S Groups Funding Disinformation Campaign In Malaysia , March 13, 2001]) In the Far E
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  • ...rmine industry-critical research. The Philip Morris campaign was waged via front organisations such as [[The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition]] (TASSC ...p by ExxonMobil for the purpose of promoting the uncertainties surrounding climate science.<ref>John Ehrenfeld, "[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ehrenfeld
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  • {{Template:Climate badge}} ...ernment scientist, has become one of the world’s leading and most quoted climate sceptics. Singer has also attacked other issues such as ozone depletion, ac
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  • ...to form a single company, '''Fishburn'''. The new firm comprises four core groups: ===Front groups===
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  • ...that the debate on the environment has been distorted by extreme pressure groups".<ref>Andy Rowell, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2001/jul/11/guardian ...ntific consensus on issues that do not fit with that agenda - for example, climate change.
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  • ===Front groups=== ...ing criticism of its role in establishing and de facto running three front groups: The [[Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis]] (on behalf of [[Aventis]
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  • ...ttempt to understand the significance of a nexus of intelligence connected groups which covertly influenced the political landscape of the post-war UK includ ...Bolshevik 'threat',(2) we know that much of the early effort was put into groups aimed at the exploitation of so-called 'patriotic labour', such as the Brit
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  • ===Pro-nuke lobbying: vital for climate and security of supply in the UK=== ...s; fraud; false and misleading advertising; sponsorship of corporate front groups; lobbying; a personal attack on a radiologist for exposing the risks of nep
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  • ...f.ca/cms/file/pdf/nfraser.pdf The Fraser Institute: Economic Think Tank or Front for the Tobacco Industry?], Non-Smokers Rights Association, Accessed 10-Feb ...ual statements that it contributed $60,000 to the organisation to work on "Climate Change", the Fraser Institute does not explicitly disclose the contribution
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  • {{Template:Climate badge}} ...e business participation in the scientific and policy debate on the global climate change issue&#39;. Members included corporate giants such as [[Exxon]], [[D
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  • ==Spending on Propaganda front groups and cut outs== ...,14 November 2007, Number10.gov.uk - accessed 19/11/09</ref> On a domestic front, Counter-terrorism funding is being used “to counter extremists' false ch
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  • :Sixty per cent of the donations come from individuals or groups giving more than £5,000. The [[Midlands Industrial Council]], which has do ...11/prescott-says-tax-group-tory John Prescott says tax lobby group is Tory front], ''the Guardian'', 11-October-2009, Accessed 18-April-2011</ref> However t
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  • ...y of the staff, modernizing the physical plant, changing the format of the front page, using subliminal propaganda, assassinating the character of governmen ...upon in taking over a newspaper, combined with the drastic changes of the front page, are so specific that it is possible to identify the Agency's hand in
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  • ...oration" with six other institutes, these institutes include the four main groups from the SN website but add the [[Edmund Burke Foundation]] (Netherlands) a ...edge economy. But new problems have also arisen including energy security, climate change, the tension between intellectual property and competition and, inde
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  • ...n the DC-based think tank element of the backlash movement, including such groups as the [[Cato Institute]], the [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] and [[C ...having served as director of media programs for the wise use / right wing groups [[Defenders of Property Rights]], [[Putting People First]] and [[Accuracy i
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  • ...purely scientific appraisals are often politicized and misused by interest groups. The Marshall Institute seeks to counter this trend by providing policymake ...g on defence issues has broadened out to be a leading think-tank debunking climate change.
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  • ...ns and scientists have signed an open letter to world leaders opposing the climate change treaty now being negotiated in Kyoto, Japan …TASSC and ESEF are no [[Category:Front Groups]][[Category:Tobacco|Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, The]]
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  • ...ister addressed the CBI's annual dinner, the ''Financial Times'' carried a front-page story headlined "Blair to warn business on its influence". The paper p ...loca-tion for HSBC to be based. It takes into account the overall business climate, the fiscal regime, regulatory standards and a number of other consideratio
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  • ==Climate Change== ...that works toward voluntary codes of conduct and market based solutions to climate change and against mandatory emissions limits. The allegation, which has be
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  • ...ton,<ref>See Wexler Group [www.wexlergroup.com website.]</ref> to set up a front group, [[USA Engage]], to do the dirty work for it. USA Engage, which was l ...ted “help in altering the debate and creating a more conducive political climate for their anti-abortion position” in response to the increasingly success
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  • ...and to achieve this it "encourages a debate among all significant interest groups and channels the results to policy-makers". It makes no secret of placing " ...rm warned BAT that they would need to tread carefully, lobbying through a 'front' organisation and enlisting other 'big industry names'<ref> Katherine E. Sm
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  • ...all this environmental stuff... much of which is unjustified, such as the climate change levy. We also have the aggregates tax, which will put the UK quarry ...n of an aggregates tax, which has been demanded by "environmental pressure groups who have little sympathy with the quarry industry and have chosen to ignore
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  • {{Template:Climate badge}} ...name="Michaels"/> Michaels also criticises legislative efforts to control climate change, stating, ‘Science no longer provides justification for any rush t
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  • ...nies that provided funding for the [[Formaldehyde Institute]], a corporate front group set up to defend the chemical. {{ref|49}} (See [[Dupont: Influence#In ...ng chemicals. In 1999 DuPont was listed by the US Public Interest Research Groups as one of the 'Dirty Five' – the five biggest polluters in the US – tha
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  • ...League's leaflets claimed that the NUWM was nothing more than a communist front and although its leader, [[Wal Hannington]], was a member of the [[Communis ...in all this? Surely this was another "big lie" - to throw a smokescreen in front of a particularly disreputable piece of what would be today called "damage
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  • ...administrations, the [[Economic League]] had been operating in a political climate which was sympathetic to its own rabid anti-communism and anti-socialism bu ...d, there was no chance of portraying Wilson as the willing partner of, and front man for, militant trade unionism. The coup of '68 was postponed.
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  • ...vice president of R&D in the global fabric and home-care group, got up in front of his colleagues and declared that they had borrowed their approach to the ...or what their stomach craved. While the company has made the use of focus groups and test markets into an art form, it has kept such interaction with custom
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  • ...ce turning our town centres into boarded-up ghost towns; co-operating with climate criminals, Esso; as well as numerous other corporate crimes. :'No matter how fast we grew Sainsbury's were always in front of us. But slowly but surely we managed to grind them down and grind them o
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  • ...hout actually having to do anything. As mentioned in the section on 'Lobby Groups', Tesco is represented in UNICE, which lobbies against binding targets for ...ng money to George W Bush's election campaign and influencing US denial of climate change.9
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  • ...is compact would be better placed to deal with "pressure from single-issue groups". Again, they would be allowed to use the UN's logo. But there would be no ...ral international environmental standards, including the Kyoto protocol on climate change, the Basel convention on toxic waste and the convention on biologica
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  • ...he furthering of opinions critical of the impact of [[global warming]] and climate change, through the funding of astroturf organization such as The [[Advance :"Isn't it true that Philip Morris created TASSC to act as a front group for it?
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  • ===Think tanks and front groups=== *[[European Sound Climate Policy Coalition]]
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  • ...sive society...The real problem that pro-vivisectionists face is not small groups of extremists, but the ongoing silence of those in authority. Until scienti '''Climate Change'''
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  • ...her losers hate the Irish or blacks or women. But the idea that there is a climate of Islamaphobia, a culture of hot-headed, violent-minded hatred for Muslims ...spiked-online.com/site/article/11748/ 'When foot-and-mouth didn't make the front page'], ''Spiked'', 2 April 2001.
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  • ...//www.powerbase.info/index.php/Category:Alcohol_Front_Groups Alcohol Front Groups]. Lastly we look at the science of alcohol and the role played by [http://w ...institute?newsfeed=true Diageo to end funding of Heartland Institute after climate change outburst]
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