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  • ...ccessed 8 December 2013</ref> He formerly worked at the [[Genetic Interest Group]] (GIG) London, as a policy officer, and was also on the staff of the onlin In 1997 the [[Genetic Interest Group]] became embroiled in controversy over the lobbying activities of Gillott's
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  • It is now part of global communications group [[WPP]]. Roughly three quarters of H&K’s work involves routine PR, and a ...Knowlton would represent "Citizens for a Free Kuwait," a classic PR front group which hid the role of the Kuwaiti government and its collusion with the Bus
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  • He was formerly director for the PR and lobbying firm, the [[Bell Pottinger]] Group based in a part of the business known as [[The Collective]], a consultancy ...ients have included Chile's [[General Augusto Pinochet]], South Africa's [[National Party]], and Milosevic-led Yugoslavia.
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  • ...n of the U.S. government. It was his habit, for instance, to drop by the [[National Security Council]] (NSC) in Washington every couple of months and casually * [[Afsaneh M. Beschloss]], President/CEO, [[Carlyle Asset Management Group]]
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  • ...illiam Domhoff put it.{{ref|domhoff}} In this period it was known as the [[National Advertising Council]] but later changed its name to the [[Advertising Counc ...acetime campaigns. According to documents from the Council's archives, the group aimed to enhance public opinion of and co-opt liberal opposition to adverti
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  • ...view food biotechnology". He quotes from a piece Powell contributed to The National Post - as part of ‘Junk Science Week’ - in which Powell dismissed the R ...nd the Food Safety Network are instructive. LSN openly operates as a lobby group. It operates as an entity ostensibly independent of universities and scient
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  • *Vice-chair: [[Martyn Day]] - [[Scottish National Party]] ...entral Lobby Consultants]], a private consultancy that helps to coordinate group meetings and events. <ref name="Feb">[http://www.publications.parliament.uk
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  • ...e has published books and reports on everything from military strategy and national security, to agriculture and the environment, to trade, labor, and economic ...Supporters and Friends". One quote is from [[Henry Kissinger]], former US national security advisor and secretary of state in the Nixon administration, who sa
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  • ...ently went through by way of over-compensation). He belonged to that brave group of Americans who continued to search for a workable, democratic form of Mar According to the [[National Endowment for Democracy]]'s internal annual report to September 1984, the
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  • ...z suggested that Arad would act as Netanyahu's advisor on intelligence and national security, and not just political matters.<ref>Netanyahu's new political adv ...cy adviser, was telling the leaders of the powerful American-Israeli lobby group AIPAC that they should do everything possible to resist congressional calls
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  • IRRI is also part of the [[Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research]] (CGIAR), an association of public ...tion are in wide decline or are stagnating. And even when looked at from a national economic level, it is not clear that the price has been worth paying. In th
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  • ...''' (ILSI) is an industry-backed organisation that specialises in lobbying national and international agencies such as the [[US Environmental Protection Agency ...or - chair since 2003 of [[European Food Safety Authority]] GMO Panel, the group of experts responsible for the risk assessment of GM crops<ref>EFSA, 2009.
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  • ...[[Chamber of Grain Exporters of the Argentinean Republic]], and America's National Corn Growers Association. {{ref|3}} Another key member of the IGTC is the [[National Corn Growers Association]]. NCGA is a trade association with a direct finan
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  • ...have been Prof [[Anthony Trewavas]], Prof [[Chris Leaver]] and the former National Farmers' Union President, [[Ben Gill]] (nicknamed 'Biotech Ben' by the sati ...international academies of science. He also gave evidence to the working group who produced the Royal Society's 2002 report on GM. He served on the Govern
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  • ...V. McGraw, Iowa State University, Pennsylvania State University, a farmer group and investment researcher OTR Global found the latest seeds failed to deliv As at July 2011, Jones is on the board of directors of the GM industry lobby group [[ISAAA]] and is a science adviser to the [[Danforth Center]].<ref>Jonathan
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  • ...lso on the non-executive advisory council for the pro-vivisection campaign group ‘[[Understanding Animal Research]]’ in 2009<ref name="who2009">Understa ...Ethics Advisory Committee, the Scottish Medicines Consortium Task & Finish Group on improving access to medicines for patients with rare diseases and the De
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  • ...lated company that is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. FBL Financial Group has given thousands of stock options to its directors, including the presid ...e Mississippi Farm Bureau passed a resolution 'rebuking' the Farm Bureau's national leadership for 'conflicts of interests.'
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  • In 2007 he became Chair of the [[National Network of Science Learning centres]]. ...s funding from large food companies (eg Bestfoods, the giant ($8b) US food group later taken over by Unilever) as well as front organizations for the drinks
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  • ...ed (GM) crop companies: [[BASF]], [[Syngenta]], [[Novartis]], the umbrella group the [[Agricultural Biotechnology Council]] (see below), as well as the [[Cr ...0,000, the same amount of money that was originally proposed for the whole national Public Debate on GM in the UK, held in 2003.<ref>Andy Rowell, "[http://soci
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  • Lachmann chaired the [[Royal Society]] expert group which produced the Society's first report on GM crops in 1998. Entitled &#3 ...f [[Sense About Science]]. He is also an advisor to the [[Genetic Interest Group]], to which SmithKline Beecham have also been controversially linked.
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