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  ...nd the communications activities of governments and other interests. It is a project of [http://www.spinwatch.org Public Interest Investigations and Spi ...welcome new contributors - read how you '''[[Powerbase:How to Register as a User|can sign up as user]]'''. You can also follow us on [https://twitter.
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• Front groups
  ...froups from other lobbying organisations. The creation of front groups is a key example of [[Third Party Technique]] in the [[Public Relations]] indust ...rch 1992), [http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0392.html#eco Fronting For Business], Multinational Monitor website, accessed 20 March 2015</ref>
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• Middle East Forum
  The '''Middle East Forum (MEF) ''' is a right-wing Zionist think-tank based in Philadelphia, USA. It was founded by ...to include fighting radical Islam, whether terroristic or lawful; working for Palestinian acceptance of Israel; improving the management of U.S. democrac
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• Eric Moonman
  ...University]] alumni event at the House of Commons in 2006 where Moonman is a leading light in the [[Association of Former Members of Parliament]]]] ...ciation of Former Members of Congress]], and the [[Inter-University Center for Legal Studies]] of the [[International Law Institute]].">qZVuwzbNcHQ</youtu
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• LM network
  {{Powerbase:LM network: Resources}} ...s who have obtained influential positions with other organisations and the network’s extensive youth oriented programmes.
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• GM lobby groups
  ...y is at the cutting edge of corporate spin techniques. This page links to a wide range of GM lobby and spin groups. *[[American Council for Fitness and Nutrition]]
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• David Hume Institute
  ...p. 1</ref> By 1985 'a Chairman and Board of Trustees had been identified, a President appointed and funding secured.'<ref>Kuenssberg, Nick and Lomas, G ...e much more mindful of the importance of market forces'.<ref>Alan Peacock 'A Vision of the Institute', in Kuenssberg, Nick and Lomas, Gillian. (eds) (19
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• New Labour nexus
  ...information on the integration of 'New Labour' networks with those of the free market right. ...Labour, but the networks which resulted in the creation of New Labour have a long history and so there is also material here on the subversion of the la
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• Bayer: Who, Where, How Much?
  Bayer AG is a healthcare and chemicals group represented by 350 companies on all continen For an overview of the activities of the individual business groups and their k
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• Competitive Enterprise Institute
  ...'', founded in 1984, says it "has grown into a $3,000,000 institution with a team of nearly 40 policy experts and other staff".<ref>"[http://web.archive It is described by PR Watch as "an ideologically-driven, well-funded front for corporations opposed to safety and environmental regulations that affect th
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• Congress of Racial Equality
  ...ent. CORE was among the pioneers of the use of nonviolent direct action as a means of challenging segregation, including sit-ins, jail-ins, and freedom A few months earlier, in May 2003, CORE was reported as planning a protest against Greenpeace, alleging that the environmental group had commi
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• Cato Institute
  '''Cato Institute''' is a ‘public policy research organization - think tank’ which was founded 19 It is named after the 'Cato Letters', a series of libertarian pamphlets, and the think-tank is more libertarian tha
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• American Enterprise Institute
  The '''American Enterprise Institute''' for Public Policy Research (AEI) was founded in 1943 and is located in Washingt ...n staff between the AEI, the PNAC, and the Bush Administration. Worryingly for its critics, the AEI is, along with the [[Heritage Foundation]], the most c
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• Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
  ...cus on the GM debate, the aggressive PR tactics that CDFE has promoted, as a means of attacking and seeking to discredit those raising environmental con ...crets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=23 Factsheet: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise]", exxonsecrets.org, accessed March 25 2009</ref>
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• Tracey Brown
  {{Powerbase:LM network: Resources}} .... Washington, D. C. 20037, accessed 2 May 2011</ref> She is married to LM Network associate [[Adam Burgess]].
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• CropLife International
  ...pLife International''' (formerly the Global Crop Protection Federation) is a global federation 'representing the plant science industry' and led by the ...of these 'nodes' invariably include the major biotechnology corporations. For instance, ECPA's full [http://www.ecpa.be/aboutEcpa/aboutEcpa.html members]
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• Civitas
  ...nit|Health and Welfare Unit]] of the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]]. In a March 2009 presentation [[Tim Montgomerie]] and [[Matthew Elliott]] describ ...ndon SW1 - shared with [[New Culture Forum]] and next door to the [[Centre for Policy Studies]]]]
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• John Purvis
  ...%20comfort.pdf Too Close for Comfort?]" Spinwatch, July 2008.</ref> He has a history of work in the European Parliament on financial services and on bio ...artner, [[Life Science Capital LLP]], London, England', which is of course a venture capital firm set up to fund biotech industry developments.<ref>Euro
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• Michael Fitzpatrick
  {{Powerbase:LM network: Resources}} ...007-2011, and between 2003-2004 he had a regular column in [[The Lancet]], for whom he contributed 31 articles in this period, contributing one further ar
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• Paul Wilkinson
  ...ost academic terrorologists in the UK and served as an active propagandist for Western state interests throughout his long career. He retired from academi ...In The East', ''The Sunday Herald''. 12 January 2003</ref> where he served for six years until 1965 when he retired at the rank of Flight Lieutenant.<ref>
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• Food and Drink Federation: Influence and lobbying
  The [[Food and Drink Federation]] is a corporate-controlled lobby group which promotes corporate interests in thre *Producing biased information for the public domain
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• John Gillott
  {{Powerbase:LM network: Resources}} ...les to [[PET]]'s weekly digest [[BioNews]]. He is associated with the [[LM network]].
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• Susan Greenfield
  ...In 1998 she was awarded the Michael Faraday medal by the [[Royal Society]] for disseminating science to the public and in 1999 was elected to an Honorary ...morandum for his consideration on Genetics, Science and Risks. She is also a Forum Fellow at the World Economic Conference at Davos.
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• Hill and Knowlton
  '''Hill & Knowlton''' (H&K) was for many years the largest PR and lobbying firm in the world. ...p [[WPP]]. Roughly three quarters of H&K’s work involves routine PR, and a quarter high-profile government lobbying and policy advice<ref>[http://dian
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• Doug Powell
  In May 2006 [[Doug Powell]] took up a post as an associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine's depa ...ph, Canada. He was also the scientific director for Guelph's [[Food Safety Network]], formerly known as the Agri-Food Risk Management and Communications Proje
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• Mick Hume
  {{Powerbase:LM network: Resources}} ...Hume''' is associated with the libertarian and anti-environmentalist [[LM network]]. [[File:Mick_Hume.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Mick Hume in 2007 or 2008]]
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• International Policy Network
  ...//www.policynetwork.net/main/content.php?content_id=4 International Policy Network website], undated, accessed March 2006</ref> ...im of bringing "freedom to the world" by helping "develop and strengthen a network of market-oriented think tanks that spans the globe".<ref>[http://www.about
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• Institute of Public Affairs
  ...r since. It is comprised of four units located in Victoria and Queensland: a Deregulation Unit, an Economic Policy Unit, an Indigenous Issues Unit and a ...tch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Institute_of_Public_Affairs funders], the IPA has a specific focus on 'biotechnology', saying it wants to "combat the misinform
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• Alastair Kent
  {{Powerbase:LM network: Resources}} ...ies have much to offer'. He was also on the non-executive advisory council for the pro-vivisection campaign group ‘[[Understanding Animal Research]]’
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• Liberty Institute
  ...ers for Civil Society]] (ICCS) and the London-based [[International Policy Network]] (IPN). ...ests who concoct pseudo-scientific arguments and often use unethical means for influencing government's decisions.'
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• Robert May
  ...ebs]], in Oxford University's Zoology Department since 1988. He is a Royal Society research professor specialising in mathematical biology. ...orld we want to live in.' He retired from being the President of the Royal Society in December 2005.
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• Alan McHughen
  [[Alan McHughen]] is a molecular geneticist who spent twenty years at the University of Saskatchew ...is Good for You'', as an "industry front group that produces PR ammunition for the food processing and chemical industries".<ref>John Stauber and Sheldon
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• Henry I. Miller
  ...a senior research fellow at the [[Hoover Institution]] which champions the free market and limited government. ...erials/key_pubs/fear_profiteers.pdf The Fear Profiteers]", National Center for Public Policy and Junkscience.com, February 2002, p73.</ref>
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• Julian Morris
  ...ork]", International Policy Network, 5 December 2002.</ref> Morris is also a visiting lecturer at the [[University of Buckingham]]<ref>Julian Morris, Ca ...Institute of Economic Affairs, 1994.</ref> This was followed in 1997 with a book edited by Morris entitled <i>Climate Change: Challenging the Conventio
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• Nichols-Dezenhall
  ...ols-Dezenhall]] is the former name of what is now [[Dezenhall Resources]], a PR company whose trademark is its "aggressive" campaigns to counter communi ...You can get more with a smile, a kind word and a gun than with a smile and a kind word', and [[George Carlin]], 'If you can't beat them, arrange to have
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• Social Market Foundation
  ...l Market Foundation]] is a London-based think tank established "to provide a source of innovative economic and social policy ideas"<ref>Social Market Fo ...e SMF include the suggestion that "the public should be forced to save for a pension unless they specifically opt out"<ref>Nick Mathiason, [http://www.g
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• Conference Board
  ...rketplace to help businesses strengthen their performance and better serve society." :The Conference Board was born out of a crisis in industry in 1916. Declining public confidence in business and ris
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• Connect Public Affairs Ltd
  {{Template:Lobbying_Portal_badge}}'''Connect Public Affairs''' is a Westminster-based lobbying firm in the UK. *[[Charles Pitt]], account director. A former research assistant at the [[House of Commons]] between 2005 and 2011
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• Edelman
  ...companies, earning $9.5 million in 2002. (However, it is worth noting that a number of the largest PR companies do not participate O&#8217;Dwyer&#8217;s ...l combine with Edelman's existing 85 person strong UAE business. They have a client roster that includes [[Unilever]], [[BMW]], [[DHL]], [[Michelin]], [
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• Scientific Alliance
  ...d rockers: The views of the green lobby should be challenged, according to a new alliance]", The Guardian, 11 July 2001, accessed 28 April 2009</ref> ...tack the scientific consensus on issues that do not fit with that agenda - for example, climate change.
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• Omnicom Group
  ...ng, media buying and public relations units such as [[Wolf-Olins]] and has a stake in online services firm [[AGENCY.COM]]. source [http://www.ketupa.net ...y Services]] (DAS). DAS comprises over100 companies, which operate through a combination of networks and regional organizations. They serve internationa
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• David Sainsbury
  ...]], responsible for national policy on GM crops and foods, and as such was a key adviser to Blair on GM technology. ...October 3 1997 he was made a life peer by Blair and a year later Minister for Science.
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• Science Media Centre
  ...827_ac_20120331_e_c.pdf Science Media Centre Trustees' Report and Accounts for period ended 31 March 2012], acc 3 Oct 2012</ref> ...ia-control-initiative New independent media centre aims to give scientists a voice], ''[[Financial Times]]'', Jan 30, 2001, acc 3 Oct 2012</ref>
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• Social Issues Research Centre
  ...d rational debates based on evidence rather than ideology... SIRC operates a permanent ‘social intelligence’ unit, engaged in continuous monitoring ...may be perceived that the company acts more like a public relations agency for the corporations that fund its activities. These include [[Diageo]], [[Flor
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• Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
  ...Industry]] (FICCI) and the biotech industry-backed [[International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Application]] ([[ISAAA]]). ..., rather than improve it'. Earlier P.V. Satheesh of the Deccan Development Society had similarly warned that the real agenda behind the proposed regulatory re
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• Burson-Marsteller
  ...s merging B-M with [[Cohn & Wolfe]] to become Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW), a network of more than 4,000 employees, across 42 countries. ...government and creating '[[astroturfing]]' campaigns PR helps to maintain a legislative environment on which industry can avoid real change.
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• Grayling
  '''Grayling''' is a global PR and lobbying group owned by [[Huntsworth]] and established in 198 *In April 2004, [[Huntsworth plc]] acquired a 70% stake in Grayling, while the 30% minority shareholding is held by Grayl
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• Juliet Tizzard
  {{Powerbase:LM network: Resources}} ...', Pro-Choice Forum website, accessed 2 Jan 2011</ref>, and contributed to a publication of the [[Pro-Choice Forum]]<ref>See Juliet Tizzard, Naomi Pfeff
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• Mont Pelerin Society
  ...t of each individual to plan his own life&#39;." MPS has close ties to the network of [[think tanks]] sponsored in part by the [[Atlas Economic Research Found ...Montreux, Switzerland, where the first meeting was convened in 1947 by F. A. Hayek, to combat the &#39;state ascendancy and Marxist or Keynesian planni
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• The Clandestine Caucus
  ...or Robin Ramsay and was an early attempt to understand the significance of a nexus of intelligence connected groups which covertly influenced the politi ...Labour Party members believe that it was once a socialist party, began as a
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