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  • ...#fff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> Welcome to Powerbase - your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR</h2> ...munications activities of governments and other interests. It is a project of [http://www.spinwatch.org Public Interest Investigations and Spinwatch]. [[
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  • ...ing services from IPG. Twenty of IPG&#39;s clients accounted for about 25% of their revenue (Interpublic, 2001, p. 22). ...encies as [[Bozell]], Deutsch, and [[Temerlin McClain]]. It offers a range of marketing, media planning and buying, and public relationsservices through
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  • ...nglish articles with the intent of distributing them to media outlets free of charge.<ref name=BR>Brian Whitaker, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/jo ...er the world. As a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, MEMRI is subsidized by US taxpayers.<ref name=BR>Brian Whitaker, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere
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  • ...dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A46648-2001Dec31 Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution] <i>The Washington Post</i> January 1, 2002. Accessed 2007</ref> ...ogy, genomics and breeding to improve productivity and to reduce the costs of farming.&#39;<ref>Monsanto [http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/layout/about_u
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  • ...rorism expert formerly of the [[Investigative Project]]. She is co-founder of the [[SITE Institute]] with [[Josh Devon]] which she re-launched in 2008 as ...nsion and went to a private school” and had “servants who took care of all [her] needs.” <ref>Kathryn Jean Lopez, [http://www.nationalreview.com/int
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  • ...nization&#39;s website, &#39;through more than 2,000 meetings with members of Congress&#39; it&#39;s activists &#39;help pass more than 100 pro-Israel le ...and legislators deemed not friendly enough towards Israel, and the passage of billions in grants.
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  • MEF reflects the extreme politics of its founder and has an explicitly right-wing and Zionist agenda. Its homepa ...iddle East studies in North America.<ref>[http://www.meforum.org Homepage] of the Middle East Forum website, (accessed 30 May 2008)</ref></blockquote>
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  • ...n aim to improving them."<ref>[http://www.campus-watch.org/about.php About Us], Campus-Watch (Accessed: 25 September 2007)</ref> However, the agenda has ...oshe Dayan Center]</ref> at Israel's [[Tel Aviv University]], and a member of the right-wing PR firm, [[Benador Associates]].<ref>[http://www.benadorasso
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  • ...res based at the University's School of International Relations. It is one of the key terrorology research centres with close links to government, intell ...Corporation]], dating back to at least the mid-1980s. In 1985 whilst head of Politics and International Relations at Aberdeen University, Wilkinson had
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  • ...nds and staff numbers are relatively limited as is its influence. Perhaps of most concern are those LM associates who have obtained influential position ...ensive and detailed because of the network's disparate nature and the lack of formal public links between its entities.
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  • ...business in Washington", and a "key player" in policy circles. It is "one of the most influential organizations operating behind the scenes" in the Wash .../index.php/American_Council_for_Capital_Formation#Footnotes] An indication of likely funders can be gleamed from a decade ago. In the early nineties, ACC
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  • ...week, just as 189 countries are painfully trying to agree the second stage of Kyoto at the UN climate conference in Montreal. It was pitched to companies ...d by [[ExxonMobil]], the world's biggest oil company and a fierce opponent of anti-global warming measures, the plan seeks to draw together major interna
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  • ...arliament.uk/msp/membersPages/jeremy_purvis/roi.htm entry] in the register of members interest submitted on 2 June 2003 does not mention any involvement ...nting product and campaign launches and working on competition cases - all of which require the greatest sensitivity and discretion.'
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  • ...hinking and practice to provide innovative and practical solutions to many of the pressing social, economic and environmental challenges facing Scotland" ...of the SCDI executive and its board and all of them are important members of Scotland&#39;s business community.
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  • ...e DHI was, according to Elliot, 'modelled' on the London based [[Institute of Economic Affairs]].<ref>Gerald Elliot 'Brief History: 1985-1995' in Kuenssb ...inburgh: The David Hume Institute p. 1</ref> By 1985 'a Chairman and Board of Trustees had been identified, a President appointed and funding secured.'<r
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  • ...the merger of [[Sandoz]] and [[Ciba-Geigy]]. Before the merger he was CEO of [[Sandoz]] Pharma Ltd. [http://www.novartis.com/downloads_new/management_CV ...wife is the niece of a former [[Sandoz]] chairman which led to accusations of nepotism. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4167921.stm]
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  • ...s and performance".<ref>[http://www.rocketsciencelab.co.uk/about_us/ About Us], Rocket Science website, accessed 23 Aug 2009</ref> ...e we are working with 20-30 different bodies. Between them they have given us over 500 contracts in the past four years.
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  • ...nt equipment supplier in the field of fracking'. It provides pumps for the US shale industry, and would be well placed to also benefit if fracking takes ...s] shares at £26.59 are currently trading on a price-earnings (p/e) ratio of 18 times, having risen almost 25pc in the year to date, and look up with ev
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  • ...[http://www.icsep.org.il/en/about ICSEP website]</ref> and it has a number of board members connected to neoconservative causes and free market fundament ...el realize its enormous potential by freeing its economy from the shackles of this regressive system'.<ref>[http://icsep.org.il/en/support/ Support: Why
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  • ...gated by the Prime Minister's Office to serve as Special Consultant to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. ...df Taming Leviathan - Waging the war of ideas around the world], Institute of Economic Affairs, accessed 9 August 2012</ref>
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  • ...embership organization devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East". According to its website, it "systematically m ...ship".<ref>Manfred Gerstenfeld, 'CAMERA: Fighting Distorted Media Coverage of Israel and the Middle East, (An Interview with Andrea Levin)', [http://www.
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  • ...up is striving to mould public opinion in Pakistan towards the recognition of Israel. In its own words, the organization is &#39;dedicated to promoting d ...important to note here that this move was carried out without the consent of the Pakisatni public.
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  • ...Pottinger Communications''', also known as Bell Pottinger Private, was one of the UK's largest PR and lobbying agencies until it filed for bankruptcy in One of its subsidiaries, [[Bell Pottinger Middle East]] has since been taken over
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  • ...hip client list is the envy of most other agencies. It is one of a handful of key financial PR agencies in the UK, including: [[FD]], [[Buchanan]], [[Cit ...r, rarely grants interviews and is uncomfortable when he becomes the focus of a story. ‘It's bad manners to get between the client and the footlights,'
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  • ...fice, 20 Ironmonger Lane, London, EC2V 8EY (round the corner from the Bank of England)]] ...is the PR and lobbying agency created by [[Jack Irvine]], a former editor of the Scottish Sun.
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  • ...ies itself as 'the world's leading manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, used to produce nearly 400 ===Board of Directors 2015===
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  • ...ion of the report will examine Disney's use of lobbyists to influence the US government and also how Walt Disney is involved in the actual political pro ...gh owning mass media stations like ABC, Disney has managed to stop its use of sweatshops from gaining negative exposure.
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  • Bayer AG is a healthcare and chemicals group represented by 350 companies on all continents employing 110,200 people. The activities of the Bayer Group are divided into four business segments - Health Care, Agri
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  • ...nded 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.org/web One of the most important and vociferous anti-environmental think tanks in Washing
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  • ...hief whip [[Michael Cocks]],... known chiefly for running [[Labour Friends of Israel]].{{ref|1}} Her daughter is [[Gina Laub]] of whom [[Michael Cocks]] was stepfather. In 1989 she married businessman [[Me
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  • ...ed 12.10.10</ref><ref>About Us, [http://www.cato.org/about.php Cato: About us]", accessed 12.10.10</ref> ...of libertarian pamphlets, and the think-tank is more libertarian than many of the other right-wing organisations it works with. To this end Cato says tha
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  • ...s richest, largest and most influential think tank. It was regarded as one of the George W. Bush administration's closest allies. ...ritics, the AEI is, along with the [[Heritage Foundation]], the most cited of the American think tanks.
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  • ...conflict zones including armed personnel. It has subsidiaries in a number of countries including [[Erinys Iraq]], [[Erinys (UK) Ltd]] and [[Erinys South *Major-General [[John Holmes]], the former head of [[22 SAS]] and between 1999 and 2001 [[Director Special Forces]]<ref>Erinys
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  • ...he GM debate, the aggressive PR tactics that CDFE has promoted, as a means of attacking and seeking to discredit those raising environmental concerns, ha Since the late 1980's, CDFE has been at the center of the [[Wise Use Movement]].
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  • ...describes itself as being "dedicated to increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy," and accomplishes ...ww.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/inquiry.html |title=The Inquiry |work=History of CFR |publisher=Council on Foreign Relations |accessdate=2007-02-24}}</ref>
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  • ...in Equatorial Guinea in 2004. [[Frederick Forsyth]], the author of ''Dogs of War'', is an Aegis shareholder. ...ontent/article/2007/06/30/AR2007063001075_pf.html In Iraq, a Private Realm Of Intelligence-Gathering], Washington Post, 1 July 2007.</ref>
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  • ...ww.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11341]</ref>. In 2004 CACI was the subject of five different government investigations.<ref><i>News 24</i> [http://www.ne ...nio M. Taguba]] on the [[Abu Ghraib Scandal]]. [[Steven Staphanovic]], one of its employees, was said to have &#39;allowed and/or instructed MPs (militar
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  • ...ng firm, formed in 1997 by former Labour Party aides. It was at the centre of the 1998 [[LobbyGate]] "Cash for access" scandal, which rocked the relative ...founder of [[Nexus]], a Blairite internet discussion forum. He has boasted of helping [[GTech]], the discredited Lottery company, to win their Lottery co
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  • ...rooped in and sat in the elected members seats. Amongst the delegates were all the key peak business associations representing big business including the ...information. The final insult to the Parliament&#39;s founding principles of openness was that the discussion sessions in the conference were held in pr
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  • ...rops into Africa. Thomson's book ''Genes in Africa'' promotes the benefits of GM crops for the developing world. ...sions. Other members of the Advisory Committee are also said to be members of AfricaBio or to be closely connected to members.
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  • ...pro-GM lobbyists operating out of South Africa, a country where the uptake of GM crops has been amongst the most rapid anywhere in the world. ==Conflicts of interest==
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  • ...claimed that GM is the answer to world hunger," [[Monsanto]] UK's director of corporate affairs, [[Tony Combes]], told the Sunday Herald newspaper in Jun ...to companies like Monsanto. In fact, [[L. Val Giddings]], a vice president of the [[Biotechnology Industry Organization]], has said, "I wish we could clo
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  • ...nternational Society for Biosafety Research]] (ISBR). Ammann is an editor of ''Environmental Biosafety Research'', the journal published by the ISBR. ...ionary regulation could pose to both the environment and to the well being of human populations around the world."
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  • ...advocacy' campaigns for corporate America since 1996 and serves 'a number of Fortune 100 clients in the biotechnology, chemical, financial, food, consum ...an, which described [its work] as being "Interesting. Openness in the face of controversy." '
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  • ...racey brown 2001.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Tracey Brown]] in 2001 at the time of her employment with [[Regester Larkin]]]] ...nd in 2009 was made a Friend of the College.<ref>International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers [http://www.stm-assoc.org/even
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  • ...2a24909 V-fluence Interactive Public Relations, Inc.]", O'Dwyer's Database of PR Firms, accessed 20 May 2009</ref> ...[Andura Smetacek]] and [[Mary Murphy]], and material posted on the website of a fake agricultural institute, the [[Center For Food and Agricultural Resea
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  • ...as one of the lobbying divisions of [[Bell Pottinger Communications]], one of the largest public relations companies in the United Kingdom. It went into BPPA previously operated within the public relations division of [[Chime Communications]] plc, until a management buy-out by Bell Pottinger
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  • ...tists, environmentalists and other stakeholders, in reality BSEF comprises of - and is funded by - the [[Albemarle Corporation]], [[Dead Sea Bromine Grou ...rominated Flame Retardant Industry Panel (EBFRIP), which consists of three of the four BSEF corporations. <ref name= "Mirrors"> [http://web.archive.org/w
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  • The [[Bilderberg]] meetings are a series of elite, off-the-record, European-American conferences named after the Bilder ...fluential lobbying group with a good deal of political clout on both sides of the Atlantic", noting that "meetings are cloaked in secrecy and participant
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  • ...admits taking $1m bribe], The Times, 4 December 2004.</ref> was a founder of the [[Bilderberg Group]] and the [[1001 Club]]. ...a fact which was examined by a Dutch inquiry after he met [[Queen Juliana of the Netherlands|Crown Princess Juliana]]:
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  • ...up on International Agricultural Research''' (CGIAR) constitutes a network of [http://www.cgiar.org/centers/index.html 15 Future Harvest Centers], employ ...ally built up around four international agricultural research centres, two of which had contributed notably to the Green Revolution: CIMMYT - Centro Inte
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  • ...ervativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/03/the-growth-of-b.html The growth of Britain's conservative movement], ConservativeHome, 14 March 2009.</ref> ...[[IEA Health & Welfare Unit]] of the neoliberal think-tank the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] and was spun-off as an independent think-tank in 2000. <
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  • ...te with public research institutions in the South and to promote US models of biosafety and IPR (intellectual Property Rights) legislation. During the an ...l property management systems that will promote access to, and development of, agricultural biotechnology."
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  • ...ing on: What are the barriers to science in the 21st century ? [[Institute of Ideas]] London, UK Oct 28th, 2007]] ...rime Minister's Cabinet Office Strategy Unit study 'The Costs and Benefits of Genetically Modified (GM) Crops.'"<ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/2006011
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  • ...rgest biotechnology companies in Europe (including the European offices of US companies like Monsanto) to [http://www.europabio.org/eu_nba.htm national b Members include all of the major European multinationals with significant biotechnology interests,
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  • ...take no corporate funding, circa 1997. Retrieved from the Internet archive of 24 December 1997: [http://web.archive.org/web/19971224164327/esef.org/missi ...]. A year earlier Bate had founded the Environment Unit of the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] (IEA).
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  • ....pdf Too Close for Comfort?]" Spinwatch, July 2008.</ref> He has a history of work in the European Parliament on financial services and on biotechnology. ...atch.org/files/wiki/Purvis-addition-17-03-2005.pdf Addition to Declaration of Members' Financial Interests: John Purvis], 17 March 2005.</ref>
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  • ...alcohol and drug use. He contributed regularly to the ''[[British Journal of General Practice]]'' between 2002-2012, [[Community Care]] from 2007-2011, ...zpatrick, like his brother [[John Fitzpatrick|John]], was a leading member of the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]] ([[RCP]]). This is confirmed in an ar
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  • ...describes itself as 'an independent food safety watchdog set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public's health and consumer interests in ...placed by [[Deirdre Hutton]], who was chair between 2005 and July 2009. As of May 2010 the chair was [[Jeff Rooker]],<ref>[http://www.food.gov.uk/aboutus
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  • ...nsidered an expert on 'terrorism' and radicalisation. He is currently head of the [[Buckingham University Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies]] ...rd, and a DPhil also at Oxford University. He lectured at the [[University of Warwick]] before joining [[Brunel University]] on 1 October 1975. <ref>[[Me
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  • ...of Terrorism and Political Violence]] at St Andrews University. He was one of the foremost academic terrorologists in the UK and served as an active prop ...retired at the rank of Flight Lieutenant.<ref>entry in ''Debrett's People of Today'' (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, November 2007)</ref>
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  • ...former Vice President for [http://www.bio.org/foodag/ Food & Agriculture] of the Washington DC-based [[Biotechnology Industry Organization]] (BIO) - th ...nd Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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  • ...monthly review of the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]] (RCP) and director of its offshoot, [[Debating Matters]]. Gilland was also a Living Marxism and ...'Connor]] (Principal / CEO at [[GEMS Education]]), [[David Aldrich]] (Head of Relationship Management, [[E-EMEA]] at [[Moody's Investors Service]]), [[Sa
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  • ...e of Ideas]] events (for example on Wednesday 14 March 2007)<ref>Institute of Ideas [http://www.instituteofideas.com/events/healthforum.html Health forum ...t.html John Gillott], Open University, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 8 October 2009 on 8 December 2013.</ref>
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  • .../research/greenfield Baroness Susan Greenfield], University of Oxford Dept of Pharmacology website, accessed 28 Sept 2009</ref> ...science in the UK and has reported, "Tony Blair is really into the meshing of private and public scientific research."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20
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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 quarter high-profile government lob ...t a moral rudder'.<ref>Andrew Rowell, Green Backlash – Global Subversion of the Environment Movement, Routledge, 1996, p122</ref>
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  • ...uk/cpi/ap.htm Rothamsted website], as such has taken on the responsibility of participating in media and public debates on GM crops and food. ...on the subject'. What it does not say is that he is a member of the Panel of [[CropGen]], a pro-GM lobby group set up by the biotech industry. [[CropGen
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  • ...ame one of the leading pan-corporate lobby groups, one of the five members of the 'business aristocracy' as William Domhoff put it.{{ref|domhoff}} In thi ...|Japanese]] submarines might start forest fires by shelling the west coast of the United States.
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  • ...an associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine's department of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology at Kansas State University.<ref>[http: ...ment and Communications Project, which Powell has attempted to operate out of Kansas State University under different names.
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  • ...government policy. While it would be hard to under-estimate the importance of this organization in understanding the overall framework for American forei ...acking, the composition of its leadership and membership, and the presence of its members in federal government positions.
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  • ...y its research and publications, to demonstrate the evils of the doctrines of Karl Marx'.<ref>Cited in Paul Dixon, (1971) ''Think Tanks'', New York: Athe ...pproximately 40 percent); by payout from endowment funds, the market value of which exceeds $250 million (approximately 45 percent); and by a contributio
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  • ...ure from a contrarian point of view", according to its literature. <ref>As of 2009 this description has disappeared from the Hudson Institute's website, ...rom [[Henry Kissinger]], former US national security advisor and secretary of state in the Nixon administration, who says:
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  • ...aker_detail/69/ Speakers] Battle of Ideas, acc 13 Mar 2011 and is a source of briefing material for [[Debating Matters]].</ref><ref>[http://www.debatingm ...London) and a regular contributor to other publications. He was the editor of [[LM Magazine]] (which he launched, originally as [[Living Marxism]], in 19
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  • ...current affairs programme ''[[Weekend World]]''. He was close to a number of atlanticist and anti-communist networks. ...to study at [[Queen's College, Oxford]] and in 1957 was elected President of the [[Oxford Union]]. He completed a postgraduate course at [[Nuffield Col
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  • ...Strategy]] at the [[Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy]] of the [[Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya]], where he established and chairs ...ear tour in the Air Force.<ref>Uzi Arad: Out of the shadows, into the line of fire, The Jerusalem Post, 17 October 1997.</ref>
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  • .... The founding director of IPN, [[Julian Morris]], was previously director of the IEA's Environment and Technology Programme. The IPN is based in an offi ...inging "freedom to the world" by helping "develop and strengthen a network of market-oriented think tanks that spans the globe".<ref>[http://www.aboutus.
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  • ...otechnology'. 'Since 1997, IFIC has provided the longest continuous series of publicly available surveys to determine how consumers feel about food biote The results of each annual survey are press released, attracting wide-scale media coverage
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  • ...ications''' (ISAAA) is funded by Northern developers of GMOs, with the aim of helping developing countries in the South take up GM technology. ...owerbase.info/index.php/Image:ISAAAdonors1.jpg here]. Screengrab of detail of ISAAA complete donors list (part 2), ISAAA website, version placed in web a
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  • ...er in the development of genetic manipulation technologies for the benefit of UK industry.' Its applied work has attracted great commercial interest and ...l]] (nicknamed 'Biotech Ben' by the satirical magazine Private Eye because of his enthusiasm for GM crops).
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  • ...the [[Royal Society]] and senior scientist at the [[Sainsbury Laboratory]] of the [[John Innes Centre]] (JIC) (1988-present as at June 2010).<ref>[http:/ ...1998 Jones wrote, 'I've worked with transgenic plants for 15 years, in the US and the UK. The more I do it, the less I worry about it.'<ref>Jonathan Jone
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  • ...es a promise: "The document is at Cabinet level, being discussed. I am one of those who sit on the Committee and the policy will be in place soon".' ...[[Jocelyn Webster]] of [[AfricaBio]], [[Jaipal Reddy]] of the [[Federation of Farmers Associations]], South African farmer [[TJ Buthelezi]], two lobbyist
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  • ...090306233832/http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/about_us/ About Us], accessed 3 September 2013</ref>. ...ich was established in November 2008, but has its accounts audited as part of the Genetic Alliance UK's accounts.
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  • ...hatana]</ref> , [[Farmers for Freedom (India)]] (FFF) and the [[Federation of Farmers Associations]] (FFA). ...tries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland), at the invitation of [[EuropaBio]] and in coordination with biotech giant [[Novartis]] and PR fi
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  • ...m of the US's [http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3124 exploitation of the food aid issue] for trade purposes. ...tml quoted] as saying, 'We ought to ask those who demagoge (sic) the issue of biotechnology, how many vitamin A deficient blind children will you allow t
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  • ...of Hans Krebs, the German biochemist who described the uptake and release of energy in cells (the Krebs cycle). ...nce 1988 has held a Royal Society Research Professorship in the Department of Zoology, Oxford University. His speciality is bird behaviour.
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  • ...ell as the [[Crop Protection Association]], which represents the interests of the pesticides industry. Lexington also had [[Monsanto]] and the [[Agricul ...ty.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,921537,00.html The alliance of science]", The Guardian, March 26, 2003</ref>
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  • ...the [[Royal Society]], as well as a former president of the UK's [[Academy of Medical Sciences]]. ...cally Modified Plants for Food Use&#39;, it broadly concluded that the use of GM plants had the potential to offer benefits in agricultural practice, foo
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  • ...ased in New Delhi, India. It's also part of right-wing coalitions like the US-based [[International Consumers for Civil Society]] (ICCS) and the London-b ...the merits and the potential of any frontier technology. The vetoing power of the government is susceptible to being misused by vested interests who conc
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  • ...y of California, Riverside. He is said to have helped develop Canadian and US regulations governing GM plants. ...Foods'', which claims to 'explode the myths and explore the genuine risks of genetic modification (GM) technology'. In the same year his booklet "Biotec
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  • ...of the [[Scientific Alliance]]. He has written articles on GM for a number of publications, including [[Spiked]]. ...o Acids of the Soil-Inhabiting Nematode, caenorhabditis briggsae], Journal of Experimental Biology 37,435-443 (1960)</ref>
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  • ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/may/26/thinktanks.labour The power of influence]", The Guardian, 26 May 2006, accessed 15 April 2009</ref> He was *[[Australia and New Zealand School of Government]], senior fellow. The School is run by another former Demos dire
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  • ...up' and, looking at the invariably industry-supporting claims emerging out of NCFAP stiudies, it may seem difficult to be certain where reseach ends and ...ic [http://www.ncfap.org/staff.htm qualification] appears to be a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Affairs from George Washington University.
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  • In May 2001 '''Andrew Natsios''' was sworn in as the head ('administrator') of the U.S. Agency for International Development ([[USAID]]). It is the lead U .... Natsios has served in the U.S. Army Reserves since 1972 and is a veteran of the Gulf War. He served on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon on active duty i
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  • ...onment Movement, Routledge, p139-143; S. Rampton & J. Stauber (2001) Trust Us, We’re Experts, How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Yours F Singer, a former government scientist, has become one of the world’s leading and most quoted climate sceptics. Singer has also att
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  • ...gns to counter community activist groups. It has been called "the pit bull of public relations."{{ref|1}}. The company was founded in approximately 1987 ...ols]] and edited by [[Paul Driessen]]. Dezenhall's approach to PR is that of CDFE. In a leaked presentation to pork-producers he quoted Al Capone, 'You
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  • ...the safety of GM foods. Their publication also followed hard on the heels of a British Medical Association report calling for an indefinite moratorium o ...appendix to the report which Pusztai characterised as 'misleading and full of inaccuracies... unscientific and most unfair.'
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  • Dame '''Bridget Ogilvie''' is the Vice Chair of the controversial pro-GM lobby group [[Sense About Science]].<ref>[http://w ...he went on to become the director of the [[Wellcome Trust]] (1991-98), one of the world's largest medical research bodies.
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  • ...ersees research on the genetic modification of food crops and the training of scientists and students in plant biotechnology<ref>"[http://www.agbioworld. ...</ref>. Tuskegee University receives multi-million dollar funding from the US Agency for International Development ([[USAID]]).
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  • ...ood.gov.uk/scotland/aboutus_scotland/pressreleases/2000/jun/yourviews Feed us your views on food safety]", press release, Food Standards Agency, 22 June ...ccusations that he is in favour of genetically modified food and 'a friend of big business'.<ref>Rob Edwards, "[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4
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  • [[Peter Barfoot]] and [[Graham Brookes]] are co-directors of the UK-based company [[PG Economics]] Ltd - "Independent and objective cons ...umber of reassuring reports dealing with the economic and strategic issues of GMO crops through the food chain. These reports have generated company pres
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