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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
    29 KB (4,352 words) - 22:49, 15 May 2009
  • ...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
    60 KB (9,504 words) - 20:51, 1 February 2008
  • ...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
    54 KB (8,750 words) - 12:00, 28 March 2008
  • ...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
    80 KB (13,052 words) - 17:55, 29 July 2007
  • ...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
    39 KB (5,546 words) - 15:37, 22 January 2010
  • ...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'''
    44 KB (6,222 words) - 11:06, 3 March 2015
  • ...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.
    342 KB (38,083 words) - 02:02, 24 January 2018
  • ...//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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