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  • ...Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies]], the [[Inter-Parliamentary Council for Combating Terrorism]], The [[United States Association of Former Member '''Eric Moonman''' (born 29 April 1929) is a former Labour MP turned academic, broadcaster and Israel lobbyist. More recently he has e
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  • ...facing Scotland" <ref>[http://www.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/ Scottish Council Foundation Website, Home Page], accessed Nov. 2008</ref>. It was established by the [[Scottish Council for Development and Industry]] (SCDI) in 1999, which remains strongly invo
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  • ...HI was, according to Elliot, 'modelled' on the London based [[Institute of Economic Affairs]].<ref>Gerald Elliot 'Brief History: 1985-1995' in Kuenssberg, Nick ...eacock returned to Edinburgh with the vision of creating a new independent research institute', according to the account of [[John Shaw]] a trustee of the DHI.
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  • In 2001, the [[Scottish Council Foundation]] (SCF), a New Labour-esque think-tank based in Edinburgh, undertook an interesting move by found ...ohn Blundell]]. 'The Intellectuals and Socialism', London : [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], 1998</ref> with their theoretical knowledge so that they can uti
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  • * Blackpool Council * [[British Youth Council]] Facilitation of the Management Board strategic planning event
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  • ...capture of New Labour also includes information on the integration of 'New Labour' networks with those of the free market right. ...nce services and by the CIA as well as the Atlanticist movement within the labour movement.
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  • ...politicians and aides who work or have worked at Bell Pottinger include ex-Labour Party staffer [[Cathy McGlynn]] (an adviser to [[Jack Cunningham]] when he ...er has held a number of contracts with the Bahrain Government. In 2009 The Economic Development Board (EDB) of Bahrain appointed Bell Pottinger to handle its g
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  • ...mie Borwick]] (Sponsor/Patron, [[Bruges Group]], since 1989) were National Council members of [[Business for Sterling]].<ref name="BiE">[http://www.britainine ====Council====
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  • ...ned from the group after it was implicated in the scandal over Westminster council's gerrymandering at the end of the 1990s.... ...o privatisation - and especially contracting out local authorities' direct labour organisations - and, latterly, to the European Union. In the 1997 general e
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  • '''Cato Institute''' is a ‘public policy research organization - think tank’ which was founded 1977 by [[Edward H. Crane]] ...polluters.<ref> "[http://www.peri.umass.edu/toxic_index/ Political Economy Research Institute: 100 Toxic Air Polluters]”, access 14.10.10 </ref> Koch Industr
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  • ..., issues and crisis management, reputation management, contact programmes, research and analysis, regulatory advice, campaign management, political monitoring, ...ut of evening receptions organised by Bell Pottinger Public Affairs at the Labour conference this week ... following revelations that the firm was charging c
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  • ...EA Health and Welfare Unit|Health and Welfare Unit]] of the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]]. In a March 2009 presentation [[Tim Montgomerie]] and [[Matthew E ...EA Health & Welfare Unit]] of the neoliberal think-tank the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] and was spun-off as an independent think-tank in 2000. <ref>Inter
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  • ...point for Britain’s aid programme, which until then had mainly involved economic development'. <ref> DFID [http://www.dfid.gov.uk/About-us/History/ The crea ...vesting value chain.' These include 'network building', communications and research.
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  • ...on in 1987, in which they argued the future of the left was to abandon the labour movement: ...put the same point in a different way, our class can have no future while labour retains its monopoly of political influence. Labourism as a political outlo
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  • ...ject for an article but the whole subject took off and turned into a major research field” <ref>Dennis Barker, ‘Professor with a fatal fascination’, ''Th ...t the very end of his career seems never to have carried out any empirical research on 'terrorist' groups. Whilst at Cardiff he published his first book, ''Soc
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  • ...itten for the Fabians (on controlling inflation), and sits on the advisory council of Demos. Some of his personal opinions - on media ownership, for instance ...asury team in the past, he has a realistic view of what to expect from the Labour front bench.
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  • ...try. Lexington also had [[Monsanto]] and the [[Agricultural Biotechnology Council]] listed among its clients in 2008-09.<ref>[http://docs.google.com/viewer?a ...on was hired by the corporate front group the [[Agricultural Biotechnology Council]] (ABC). ABC's founder members are [[Monsanto]], [[Bayer CropScience]], [[B
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  • ...was a key figure in the drive to modernise left-wing politics and move the Labour Party towards the market. *1982-4: administrator at the [[Greater London Council]]
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  • ...1991, it is funded by the [[Nuffield Foundation]], the [[Medical Research Council]] and the [[Wellcome Trust]]. ...asserted the safety of GM foods and crops, and all strongly criticised the research of Dr [[Arpad Pusztai]] which had raised considerable doubts about the safe
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  • ...e.org/web/20041204034152/www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/AboutUs.htm Advisory Council], SAS website, version placed in web archive 1 Feb 2005, accessed in web ar ...or of the [[Wellcome Trust]] (1991-98), one of the world's largest medical research bodies.
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  • ...s a London-based think tank established "to provide a source of innovative economic and social policy ideas"<ref>Social Market Foundation, [http://www.smf.co.u ...However, since the late 1990s it has been more closely identified with New Labour. In 2003 [[Gordon Brown]] delivered a keynote speech to the foundation on t
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  • ...jectives… orchestrating a wide range of strategies and tactics including research, coalition building, stakeholder mobilisation, media relations and grassroo ...ling and image guru [[Philip Gould]]. <ref>[http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,2091070,00.html ''Guardian'', 30 May 2007]</ref>
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  • ...troduced him to Austrian Economics. He was [[Arnold Plant|Arnold Plant's]] research assistant from 1937 to 1939. <ref>Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe, ''[htt *[[Institute of Economic Affairs]], founder and president
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  • ...2013</ref> and of employing 'some of the clumsiest spin techniques of New Labour'.<ref>Alan Rusbridger, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/jun/07/bbc.med Dr David Miller of the Stirling Media Research Institute is amongst the SMC's critics. He is quoted in an article in ''The
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  • The [[Social Issues Research Centre]] (SIRC) calls itself :an independent, non-profit organisation founded to conduct research on social and lifestyle issues, monitor and assess global sociocultural tre
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  • ...978.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Announcing the death of the covert [[Information Research Department]], 1978: [[David Leigh]] 'Death of the department that never was The '''Information Research Department''', founded in 1948 was a covert anti-communist propaganda unit
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  • *[[Christopher Smallwood]]: Constitution Unit, Economic Adviser to the Treasury 1976-81, formerly [[BP]], TSB, Economics Editor Sun ...of Staff and a Special Adviser to the late [[Donald Dewar]]. Rafferty ran Labour's campaign in Scotland with no reference to the Scottish party and he was t
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  • ...ical landscape of the post-war UK including the [[Economic League]], The [[Council on Foreign Relations]], [[Common Cause]] A surprising number of Labour Party members believe that it was once a socialist party, began as a
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  • ...New Statesman'' in April 2005: 'Warning multinational bosses that the next Labour premier's philosophy is built on - wait for it - equity, the booklet predic ...overnment Commerce]] (now [[Cabinet Office]] (2007-09) and a parliamentary research assistant to [[Liz Lynne]] MEP. <ref> [http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/sarah-jen
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  • ...ission for unpopular schemes. Local protesters, residents' groups and even council planners may never have heard of PPS but PPS knows all about them. Its 60 s ...ompany was founded 17 years ago by Stephen Byfield, a former staffer for a Labour MP, and Charles St George, an ex-Tory councillor. Its client list reads lik
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  • ...ness,” December 14, 2007, p23</ref> The company has strong ties to the [[Labour Party]] through its CEO [[Colin Byrne]]. ...of U-turn on nuclear energy], Independent, 5 November 2001</ref> By 2006, Labour was claiming the opposite - that nuclear power needed to be part of the mix
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  • ==New Labour supporter and adviser== ...Tony Blair]]'s closest advisers (and a Labour Party funder — he gave the Labour Party donations of £5,000 a year from 1992 (with an extra £14,000 in 1997
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  • ...d of the First World War to the closing years of the twentieth century the Economic League conducted its radical rightwing “crusade for capitalism” on the Established in 1919 by conservative politicians and industrialists, the Economic League was a pro-capitalist and anti socialist propagandist group. In publi
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  • '''Jack McConnell''' (Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale) is a [[Labour]] peer in the House of Lords, having joined on the 28 June 2010.<ref name=" ...Officegate. It has its roots in a loathsome part of Scottish political and economic life]', ''Sunday Herald'', March 10, 2002.</ref>
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  • ''Journalist David Osler's first book'' Labour Party Plc: New Labour as a Party of Business ''is published by Mainstream Publishing on Sept. 25t [[Industrial Research and Information Services]], a big-business funding grouping which secretly
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  • #[[European Food Information Council]] needs references (referenced by Mat) #[[Felix Dennis]] need a reference for Labour party donations and trial (checked, corrected and referenced by Mat)
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  • ...most important global elite planning groups (the others being the [[World Economic Forum]] and the [[Bilderberg Group]]). ...c inequality); and (3) the leaders of capitalist democracies-systems where economic control and profit, and thus political power, rest with the few-must resist
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  • ...nd Conservative Parties respectively. Arnold is a former Chair of Scottish Labour Students, a former Adviser to the Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. C ...dviser to [[Alistair Darling]] MP for 12 years, worked on the [[Council of Economic Advisers]] at [[HM Treasury]], the [[Department for Work and Pensions]], th
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  • ...6 November 2004, accessed October 2008</ref> and was well connected in New Labour circles. ...as been its treasurer since 1982. He was a parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party, standing for Lincoln in the 1992 and 1987 general elections.
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  • ...believe that everyone should have the chance to share fully in the civic, economic and cultural life of our society. *Chair of National Council: [[Roy Hattersley]]
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  • ...nk whose mission is to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity’. ...harities/ScannedAccounts%5CEnds39%5C0001103739_AC_20041231_E_C.pdf Reform Research Trust Accounts 1 January - 31 December 2004 (PDF)]</ref>
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  • ...vided advice to the British Secret Intelligence Service, the [[Information Research Department]], and the [[CIA]]. He wrote for [[Reuters]] and ''[[The Economi ...nent].</ref> A few years later, Crozier went to work for the [[Information Research Department]], a covert anti-communist propaganda unit within the Foreign an
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  • Originally published in ''Lobster: parapolitics and state research journal'' ...ers, but both are key figures in the 'modernising project' in Blair's 'New Labour' government: Mandelson as Minister without Portfolio having a roving brief
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  • It is a long-neglected challenge in the contemporary world of economic globalisation and liberalisation to regulate the borderless markets and the ...often fail to uphold the basic human rights of their citizens for fear of economic loss (see [[Shell]]'s activities in Nigeria) or repercussion.
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  • ...gathering of CEOs from Europe's biggest businesses. It became the [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF) in 1987. In fact it is an exclusive private club for the chie political, economic and business agenda for the year. The WEF also has numerous other more spec
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  • BP takes a high profile position within the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] (WBCSD) {{ref|113}}. Speeches by John Browne ...Most significantly USCIB chairs the expert-group of the [[Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development]] (OECD){{ref|117}}.
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  • ...the Government should ensure that public spending grows below the rate of economic growth, so that 'as tax revenues rise', some of the new income can be used ...ers of the super rich - [[Damon de Laszlo]], Chairman, [[Economic Research Council]], Sir [[Rocco Forte]], Chairman, [[Rocco Forte Hotels]], [[Rupert Hambro]]
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  • ...his earliest jobs in politics, as official Conservative Party observer at Labour's annual conference, as the worst he has had. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/u ...ences 'authentic and forward-thinking analysis of the world's most complex economic issues, and the way forward for Britain and the world economy'. <ref> [http
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  • ...aunched by The [[Foreign Policy Centre]] in partnership with the [[British Council]] and the [[Migration Policy Group]]. ...afficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (ATLEU) || The Anti-Trafficking and Labour Exploitation Unit (ATLEU) || 20000 || 11/03/2013 || 01/04/2013 || 31/03/201
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  • For the past decade, the Labour MP and former Cabinet minister [[Tony Benn]] has been valiantly trying to p ...ffence is more serious and the political stakes much higher. As the former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, once told the House: 'It
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