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• Scottish Council Foundation
  ...tive and its board and all of them are important members of Scotland&#39;s business community. ...l Conference 4-7 April 2005 - University of Leeds]</ref> Challenging the consensus here means introducing pro-market ideas into the public sphere and advising
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• Policy Institute
  ...titute. Jamieson has been a frequent guest at the IEA and at the [[Bruges Group]] - a Thatcherite committed to a fight against deeper UK integration into t ...e of a conservative journalist at odds with the perceived leftist Scottish consensus. It certainly serves the Scotsman as a reliable source for neo-liberal lead
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• Michael Ivens
  ...of Industry]] (1971-92), a position he used to promote rightwing views on business freedom, privatisation and the evils of the closed shop. He was also promin ..., whose second wife, Katy, was a Westminster councillor, resigned from the group after it was implicated in the scandal over Westminster council's gerrymand
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• Competitive Enterprise Institute
  ...pposed to safety and environmental regulations that affect the way they do business".<ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/20011107223849/http://www.prwatch.org/im ...the [[Environmental Education Working Group]] (EEWG), a national umbrella group for organizations working to undermine environmental education in schools.
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• American Enterprise Institute
  ...less than the health of the U.S. economy - critical at a time of sluggish business, high unemployment and a terrorist threat that requires increased productio ...00 plus travel expenses and additional payments, asking them to critique a consensus report on global warming by the [[UN]]'s [[Intergovernmental Panel on Clima
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• British Nutrition Foundation
  The [[British Nutrition Foundation]] (BNF) is the key food industry front group in the UK. The BNF promotes itself as a source of impartial information, bu ...tml Is the British Nutrition Foundation having its cake and eating it too? Group dedicated to healthy eating is partly funded by the food industry], The Ind
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• Bilderberg
  ...ts rarely reveal their attendance". According to [[Will Hutton]], &#39;the consensus established is the backdrop against which policy is made worldwide&#39;.<re ...groups' emerging in the 1950s: the [[European Movement]], the [[Bilderberg Group]] and [[Jean Monnet]]'s [[Action Committee for a United States of Europe]].
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• Civitas
  ...ts like [[Milton Friedman]] the IEA provided an intellectual rationale for business friendly political and economic reforms introduced by the Thatcher governme ...istani Christian Association]] | [[Ashish Joshi]], [[Sikh Media Monitoring Group]] | [[Satish K Sharma]], [[National Council of Hindu Temples]] | [[Rumy Has
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• European Science and Environment Forum
  ...Milloy]]'s [[The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition]] (TASSC), a front group created to assist the tobacco industry in its fight against regulation of s ...997 on 29 January 2015.</ref> the ESEF described itself as 'a non-partisan group of scientists' and claimed, 'To maintain its independence and impartiality,
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• Michael Fitzpatrick
  ...ondent. In May 2010 he became, and continues to be, a trustee of the lobby group [[Sense About Science]] having accepted an approach from [[Tracey Brown]]<r ...our over the political process in its neglect to consider the influence of business.
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• Food Standards Agency
  ...and a Consumers International representative, at the Codex Ad Hoc Working Group on Allergenicity (10-12 September, Vancouver), comments on the role of [[Ni ...arms length from Government in order to minimise bias. 'There is a strong consensus amongst consumer and environment organisations,' the letter said, 'that the
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• Anthony Glees
  ...nal politics in British higher education, it's a left-of-centre to Marxist consensus in the state system." <ref>Melanie Newman, 'Culture in the state-funded sec ...ement. Glees seems to have undergone something of a conversion on the GDR group. According to Sandford's account:
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• Tony Gilland
  Prior to this he was a 'Senior Business Analyst' for [[Kinetica Natural Gas]], for whom he was a representative in ...ng party. The Wellcome Trust said in a letter that this 'extremely narrow' group ran 'the risk of being seen as a closed and defensive strategy' and argued
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• Matt Ridley
  ...companies and is on the Advisory Council of the controversial pro-GM lobby group [[Sense About Science]]. He has an association with the libertarian and ant ...his colleagues had been running the bank.<ref>"[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7052828.stm Northern Rock chairman steps down]", BBC News Online, 19 Octobe
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• Scientific Alliance
  ...own extreme agenda. It is also perfectly prepared to attack the scientific consensus on issues that do not fit with that agenda - for example, climate change. ...also have the aggregates tax, which will put the UK quarry industry out of business."<ref>Andy Rowell, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2001/jul/11/guardian
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• Science Media Centre
  ...[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4426145-102285,00.html Lobby group 'led GM thriller critics'], The Observer, June 2, 2002, acc 14 Feb 2013</re ...f its funding comes from any one source; yet 70% of its funding comes from business, which could be said to have similar interests. The SMC has since had the a
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• The Clandestine Caucus
  ...ns of the British corporate movement.(5) One of the leading figures of the group, Sir [[Dudley Docker]], envisaged ...in parliament consisted of 105 (mostly Tory) members. Hannon's Industrial Group chiefly wanted government protection of British industry against foreign co
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• Association of Professional Political Consultants
  ...ofessional Political Consultants]] (also known as the [[APPC]]) is a lobby group for the lobbying profession. It describes itself as "the self-regulatory bo ...esentatives or employees of Parliament; except for entertainment and token business mementos, APPC secretary Charles Miller nonetheless remarked:
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• Vincent Tchenguiz
  ...ref> The Tchenguiz family trust and the Tchenguiz vehicle the [[Consensus Group]] became involved with SCL in late 2005 and new incorporation documents wer ...ool. "I'm not that great at sports," he says, "so I moved my energies into business activity very early on."
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• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy
  ...stries." <ref>[http://www.allparty-nuclear.org.uk/ All Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy]</ref> ...ons.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/nuclear-energy.htm Cross Party Group on the Civil Nuclear Industry] </ref>
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• European Round Table of Industrialists
  The [[European Round Table of Industrialists]] (ERT) is a peak business association of around 40 members, who are 'Chairmen and Chief Executives of ...n the publication of ERT reports and proposals. The decisions are taken by consensus.
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• Council on Foreign Relations, extract from The Powers That Be
  ...rying tp define issues and alternatives. Such groups often lead to a study group as the next stage. ...esent monthly papers which are discussed and criticized by the rest of the group. The goal of such study groups is a detailed state-ment of the problem by t
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• Business Council, extract from The Powers That Be
  ...were conducted in narrow interest groups. That was the existence of the [[Business Council]]. Calling it "one of the more remarkable groups ever associated wi ...940&#39;s and 1950&#39;s the Council included a cross-section of the major business leaders in the nation. It held six meetings a year, some in Washington, som
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• Dieter Helm
  ...[[Natural Capital Committee]], and as a member of the [[Economics Advisory Group]] to the UK Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, alongside [[Lor ...he European Commissioner for Energy and as Chairman of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on the Roadmap. He also assisted the Polish government in their presidency
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• Corporate Social Responsibility the current debate
  ...ed more with “state failure” than a failure on the part of the private business sector [http://www.christian-aid.co.uk/indepth/0401csr], despite the increa ...lpractice or improve the social, environmental and human rights sectors of business performance, as well as on the regulatory role of non-state actors in stand
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• Astroturf
  ...ious for campaigning against legislation and speaking out about scientific consensus that is damaging to their sponsor's interests by emphasising extreme minori When an individual creates a fake identity for purposes similar to a Front Group this is known as a [[Sock puppet]]. As a technique of Astroturfing, Sock Pu
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• Pfizer
  ...was incorporated as Charles Pfizer & Co in the US in 1942 but the original business dates back to a partnership founded in 1849. Until the turn of the century ...at we emerge as the company recognised as the best by patients, customers, business partners, and the communities where we live and work. It’s a long term mi
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• Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
  ...officials that the situation is deteriorating. There is a further point of consensus: that the deterioration is a direct consequence of "coalition" policy.'<ref ::-reliability, straight dealing and trustworthiness in business and international affairs.
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• The Barrow Cadbury Trust
  ...e]] in partnership with the [[British Council]] and the [[Migration Policy Group]]. The Trust also funds the [[All-Party Parliamentary Group on Penal Affairs ]] and is a grant-making foundation which "seeks to encour
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• Systemic Corruption, Systemic Solutions
  ...orce also included environment work by the beginning of June 1998 when the group reviewed the (supposedly) final contents the White Paper which included a t This is nasty business, far more threatening to democracy than Mr [[Neil Hamilton|Hamilton]]'s Par
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• Greenspirit Strategies
  ...ce in the mid 1980s, Moore ventured unsuccessfully into the salmon farming business. Now he makes a living writing, speaking and campaigning on behalf of the ...nted in an aquaculture industry presentation in July 2005 how her ‘small group of dedicated individuals were able to initiate change and promote the posit
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• Douglas Feith
  ...[Fandz International Law Group]]. According to Fandz’s web site, the law group “has recently established a task force dealing with issues and opportunit ===Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group===
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• American Legislative Exchange Council
  ...an ultra-conservative lobby group that pushes legislation that favours big business and rolls back environmental regulations. Examples include the so-called St ...mocracy]] revealed that despite ALEC's portrayal of itself as a membership group for it was in fact largely corporate funded, and a particular favourite of
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• George C. Marshall Institute
  ...herring if there ever was one - that the Marshall Institute spoke for big business. ...speaking media tour organised by a PR firm working for the corporate front group the [[Global Climate Coalition]].<ref> Greenpeace (2001), A Decade Of Dirty
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• David Cairns
  ...lations about regional fear of Iran provided an opportunity to forge a new consensus around the ‘absolute necessity of taking action against Iran before it de ...the Progressive Case for Israel', organised jointly by New Labour pressure group [[Progress]], [[Labour Friends of Israel]] and the [[New Israel Fund]] and
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• Aquafed
  Aquafed is an international water industry lobby group. ...president is [[Gerard Payen]], the former CEO and chairman of the [[Ondeo Group]], Suez’ water division ; and [[Jack Moss]], Senior Water Advisor at Sue
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• Unilever: Influence / Lobbying
  ...own dramatically ever since. Advertising has always been a keystone of the business. (E.g. Unilever Bestfoods UK spends almost £100 million a year on advertis ...r multinationals with huge market power, aiming to create a more favorable business climate. The finalizing of the single European market (and its extension to
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• European Policy Centre
  ...lacing "special emphasis on strengthening the interface of government with business". <ref> European Policy Centre, [http://www.epc.eu/about.php About Us: Miss ...ss must be more involved in public policies."<ref> Quoted in "Crossing the Business and Political Divide", by Rory Watson, the European Voice 9-15 July 1998. <
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• Global Reporting Initiative
  ...nability reporting. Nearly 1000 organizations from over 60 countries, from business, civil society, labor, accounting, investors, academics, governments, and o ...es reporting organizations and information seekers, who work together in a consensus-seeking process. The GRI firmly believes that this multi-stakeholder engage
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• Strategic Communication Laboratories
  ...hing'' as a psyops operator.<ref>Oliver Morgan, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2005/sep/11/theobserver.observerbusiness4 ‘Lobby firm goes to war’], '' ...nd Security [http://www.scl.cc/article.php?id=45] tells us they are in the business of 'population control.'
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• Julian Wheatland
  ...innovative business models that will radically change traditional modes of business. *[[Consensus Community]] - Chief Executive
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• Bayer: Influence / Lobbying
  ...s in over 130 countries. Although the organisation calls itself the 'World Business Organisation', it is clearly dominated by large transnational corporations ...nal environmental treaties and these efforts have continued even after the group has pledged support for the Global Compact principles. Examples include the
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• Shell: Who, Where, How Much?
  ...r-cent and 40 per-cent respectively of assets. One cannot by shares in the group as such. Royal Dutch and Shell are listed separately on the world's stock e Vanguard Group: 27 252 224 shares, approximately 1.3 per-cent of Royal Dutch.
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 7: Peace and Cold War
  ...courses for training youth movement leaders in the technique of conducting group discussions in youth clubs. These courses have been followed up by the prov ...the large scale open-air meeting to put its message across. These became "group discussions at works gates" and its propaganda machine depended increasingl
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 8: The Wilson Years
  ...g class, his administrations were firmly in the mould of the mixed-economy consensus politics associated with Hugh Gaitskell. But whereas his economic ideas wer ...s. In 1968 this corps of speakers, trainers and lecturers organised 24,250 Group talks and outdoor meetings, 6,340 courses for apprentices and 3,750 for sup
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• Exxon Mobil: Influence / Lobbying
  ...695,800 on lobbying.<ref>Leslie Wayne, "[http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/04/business/companies-used-to-getting-their-way.html Companies Used to Getting Their Wa ...9: [[Akin, Gump et al]], [[Cassidy & Assoc]], [[Gardere & Wynne]], [[Mobil Business Resources Corp]], and [[Swidler, Berlin et al]]. <ref>"[http://web.archive.
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• HBOS Executive Committee
  ...pporting the HBOS Board’s process for reviewing the effectiveness of the Group’s system of internal control.
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• Pearson
  Research by ActionAid on company use of tax havens has shown that Pearson’s group structure includes 90 subsidiaries in recognised tax havens.<ref>James Ball ==Pearson education business==
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• European Food Information Council
  ...nformation source on food, but actually functions as a food industry lobby group. It is co-funded by the [[European Commission]] and works with the Commiss ...Representative at the United Nations in Geneva, and Convenor - NGO Working Group on Nutrition, under the Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva, Switzerla
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• Jeffrey Goldberg
  ...r the bloggers panel] during the J Street conference and describes it as a group of "anti-Zionists with Jewish parents." Think about that. This is a stateme ...a remote or far-fetched possibility, but rather as something that is just "business-as-usual" in the Middle East strategic environment. If you talk about going
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