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• Main Page
  ...#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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• Corporate Memberships Database
  From this page you can look up the activities of the world's biggest corporations, focusing in particular on: * their memberships of [[Peak Business Associations]] and [[Corporate Lobby Groups]];
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• BP
  ...erly Finance Director of UDV [[Guinness]] and Group Treasurer and Director of Risk Management with [[Diageo]]<ref>Centrica [http://www.centrica.co.uk/ind ...<ref>‘[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U34897 SIMON OF HIGHBURY]’, ''Who's Who 2011'', A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford Uni
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• Middle East Media Research Institute
  ...with the intent of distributing them to media outlets free of charge.<ref name=BR>Brian Whitaker, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0, ...501(c)3 non-profit organization, MEMRI is subsidized by US taxpayers.<ref name=BR>Brian Whitaker, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,
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• Monsanto
  ...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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• Rita Katz
  ...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 ...mansion and went to a private school” and had “servants who took care of all [her] needs.” <ref>Kathryn Jean Lopez, [http://www.nationalreview.com
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• American Israel Public Affairs Committee
  ...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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• Jonathon Harrington
  ...lex Avery]], a fierce critic of organic farming and a well known supporter of GMOs.<ref>"[http://www.optimaexcel.co.uk/services.htm Services from Optima ...ticle reported that he had planted GM maize on his Welsh farm, in defiance of the Welsh Assembly .<ref>Caroline Davies, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/envir
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• Eric Moonman
  ...06 where Moonman is a leading light in the [[Association of Former Members of Parliament]]]] ...mbers of Congress]], and the [[Inter-University Center for Legal Studies]] of the [[International Law Institute]].">qZVuwzbNcHQ</youtube>
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• Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence
  ...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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• LM network
  ...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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• GM lobby groups
  ...utting edge of corporate spin techniques. This page links to a wide range of GM lobby and spin groups. Please see also the index of [http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Category:GM all pages in the GMWatch p
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• Scotland: Portal
  ...Scotland Portal on [[Powerbase:About|Powerbase]] - your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR. ...olicies. However this is not impartial advice from disinterested observers of the political - economic scene. This is special pleading from very interest
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• Scottish Council Foundation
  ...w.scottishcouncilfoundation.org/ Scottish Council Foundation Website, Home Page], accessed Nov. 2008</ref>. ...of the SCDI executive and its board and all of them are important members of Scotland&#39;s business community.
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• David Hume Institute
  ...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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• Futures Forum
  [[Image:Futures_board.jpg|thumb|right|The Board of the Futures Forum]] ...rliament.uk/nmCentre/news/news-05/pa05-070.htm Parliament Announces Board of Directors for Scotland's Futures Forum] Last Accessed 31st May 2007</ref>
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• International Futures Forum
  ...d PR agency funded by big business and with links to the [[Futures Forum]] of the Scottish Parliament and to the California-based [[Global Business Netwo ...39;explore[s] new ways of operating effectively and responsibly in a world of boundless complexity, a world we no longer fully understand and cannot cont
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• Global Business Network
  ...n possible future scenarios. It was founded in Berkeley in 1987 by a group of friends including [[Peter Schwartz]], [[Jay Ogilvy]], [[Stewart Brand]], [[ ...sionaries from the sciences, arts, business, and academia; and a community of practice engaged in innovating and transferring tools for scenario thinking
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• Centre for Scottish Public Policy
  ...odernising the System]", SCDI, 5 May 2000, accessed January 2009</ref>. As of 2009 Hassan is working with think-tank [[Demos]] on the Scotland 2020 proje ...litical Studies Association Annual Conference, 4-7 April 2005 - University of Leeds, p. 6, accessed January 2009.</ref>
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• Scottish Executive
  ...rting that government. In 2007 the incoming SNP administration changed the name to [[The Scottish Government]]. The head office of the Executive is at [[St Andrew's House]], on Calton Hill in Edinburgh. Som
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• Food Industry lobby groups
  This page links to a range of 'Front Groups' and corporate lobby groups engaged in trying to undermine ef
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• New Labour nexus
  ...ncludes information on the integration of 'New Labour' networks with those of the free market right. ...r have a long history and so there is also material here on the subversion of the labour movement by the British intelligence services and by the CIA as
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• Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
  ...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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• Neoconservatives Portal
  ...lcome to the Neoconservatives Portal on Powerbase - your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR</h2> ...derisive term for leftists and liberals who were migrating rightward. Many of the first generation neoconservatives were originally liberal Democrats or
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• Wendy Alexander
  ...the Institute (1/9/02 to 31/12/05). She was paid £15,000 for this on top of her MSP salary. She is currently a member of the Finance and Education Committees of the [[Scottish Parliament]].
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• Aims of Industry
  ...ustries such as sugar, iron and steel. It campaigned against the creation of the National Health Service in 1945. It was known as [[Aims for Freedom and ...right|200px|'The End of Freedom in Britain', 1973 press advert from [[Aims of Industry]] in [[The Times]], 28 December 1973; p. 4; Issue 58974; col A. ]]
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• Michael Ivens
  ...o promote rightwing views on business freedom, privatisation and the evils of the closed shop. He was also prominent in other rightwing organisations, in ...icated in the scandal over Westminster council's gerrymandering at the end of the 1990s....
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• Coca Cola
  ...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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• Walt Disney
  ...media. Finally, the last section of the report will examine Disney's use of lobbyists to influence the US government and also how Walt Disney is invol ...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: Who, Where, How Much?
  The activities of the Bayer Group are divided into four business segments - Health Care, Agri For an overview of the activities of the individual business groups and their key products, visit:
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• Life Sciences Network
  This may reflect its origins. [[Nicky Hager]], author of a book on 'corn-gate' - New Zealand's GM sweetcorn scandal, has referred to ...Machine February 2009. Also see Nicky Hager, Seeds of Distrust: The Story of a GE Cover-Up, Craig Potton Publishing, 2002, p.15</ref>
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• Cato Institute
  ...company and the largest privately owned oil company, with annual revenues of more than $30 billion.<ref> Moore, C (2002) [http://www.sierraclub.org/sier ...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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• Weekly Standard
  ...rman of the controversial [[Project for the New American Century]] and son of leading neoconservative [[Irving Kristol]]. ...rg/2006/narrative_magazines_audience.asp?cat=3&media=8 Magazines]", State of the News Media 2006. </ref>
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• Custer Battles
  ...he newly issued currency. Its successes even elevated it to the front page of the ''Wall Street Journal'' in August 2004. ==Allegations of Fraud==
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• Erinys International
  ...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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• Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
  ...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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• Center for Food and Agricultural Research
  ...to's former Chief Internet Strategist gave CFFAR as an example of the type of website that Monsanto worked to direct people who were seeking information ...nt members, organisational structure, administrative location or personnel of this 'public policy and research coalition'
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• AstraZeneca
  Astra (UK-based) and Zeneca (Sweden-based) merged in 1998 in one of the largest European mergers ever.<ref>Source: BBC News. Business: The Comp *[[Council of Chief Risk Officers]] (Conference Board) [http://www.conference-board.org/m
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• Aegis Defence Services
  ...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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• PR and lobbying consultancies client database
  This page links to pages which feature information on the clients of PR and lobbying consultancies. ==Alphabetical list of lobbying and PR consultancies==
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• Klaus Ammann
  ...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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• Roger Bate
  ...vironment and Technology Programme and as of 2009 is still a senior fellow of the IEA. ...directed [[International Policy Network]] whose Washington address is that of the [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]], where Bate is an adjunct fellow.
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• David Baulcombe
  ...ion of the words "genetic engineering", it proved to be a significant part of what was meant. ...laps between this [[Royal Society]] study and the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), the
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• Rick Berman
  ...o prevent regulation and promote individual freedoms. He works in a range of controversial areas including defending products including caffeine, salt, ...libertarian right wing perspective and his critics are not accusing Berman of 'educating people'.
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• Biotechnology Industry Organization
  ...ry Organization (BIO) was established in July of 1993 under the leadership of Carl B. Feldbaum. By 2004 it had grown from 16 employees and a $2.1 million ...biotech products; and supporting tax incentives for the industry. Threats of bioterrorism have also propelled the industry - and its trade association -
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• Bivings Group
  ...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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• British Nutrition Foundation
  ...y food industry front group in the UK. The BNF promotes itself as a source of impartial information, but it does not always make its links with industry ...f society through the impartial interpretation and effective dissemination of scientifically based nutritional knowledge and advice'.<ref>[http://www.hea
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• Bell Pottinger Public Affairs
  ...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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• Bromine Science and Environment Forum
  ...tists, environmentalists and other stakeholders, in reality BSEF comprises of - and is funded by - the [[Albemarle Corporation]], [[Dead Sea Bromine Grou ...anel (EBFRIP), which consists of three of the four BSEF corporations. <ref name= "Mirrors"> [http://web.archive.org/web/20090406034157/http://www.corporate
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• Thomas Deichmann
  ''Some sections of this page have been suspended pending further research.'' ...ente|''NovoArgumente'']], published in Frankfurt.<ref name="battle">Battle of Ideas, [http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2010/speaker_detail/27/ T
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• Alan Dewar
  ...d [[Dupont]], [[Novartis]], [[Syngenta]] and [[AgrEvo]] (which became part of [[Aventis CropScience]], and later [[Bayer]]) amongst its 'Commercial Partn ...This research was funded by Monsanto, as is acknowledged on the final page of the study (p. 350).</ref>
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• Des D'Souza
  ...s often at the centre of public interest. However, getting information out of their Communications Manager, Des D'Souza could be a difficult task.... ...rial. After D'Souza claimed on Radio 4 that only a relatively small number of people had attended a public meeting about the trial that had been packed o
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• Bill Durodié
  ...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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• Audacity
  ...terial world fit for humanity.<ref>[http://www.audacity.org/index.htm Home page], Audacity.org, acc 28 Apr 2010</ref> ...homes in the next 10 years''.<ref>[http://www.audacity.org/index.htm Home page], Audacity.org, acc 28 Apr 2010</ref>
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• European Science and Environment Forum
  ...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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• John Purvis
  ....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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• Federation of Farmers Associations
  ...Hyderabad in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, has been at the forefront of support for GM crops in India. ...san Coordination Committee]] and the [http://indianfarmers.org/ Consortium of Indian Farmers' Association (CIFA)], which operates at a national level rat
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• Michael Fitzpatrick
  ...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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• Paul Wilkinson
  ...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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• Fiona Fox
  ...rom the journal she edited at the time: ''[[Irish Freedom]]'' the bulletin of the [[Irish Freedom Movement]], Issue 18 Summer 1992.]] ''Some sections of this page have been suspended pending further research.''
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• Food and Drink Federation: Projects
  ...onomic, social or political. It aims to safeguard the commercial interests of the industry and maximise its international competitiveness&#39;. ...s with EU, Government and others&#39;{{ref|4}}. Lady Jay, Director General of the FDF, explains that &#39;FDF co-ordinated and represented industry in mo
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• Mike Gale
  ...id Sainsbury]]'s [[Gatsby Trust]] and the [[BBSRC]] as well as via several of the major biotech corporations. His particular interest was cereal genetics ...atorium would be a serious financial blow to the JIC. According to a front page article in the Eastern Daily Press, [http://www.gene.ch/info4action/1999/Fe
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• The Gatsby Charitable Foundation
  ...ls and thought-provoking discussions with researchers and peers turns some of the UK’s brightest bioscience undergraduates on to a future in plant scie ...Laboratory in 1987 and his Gatsby Foundation remains its principal source of funding, although it also receives over £800,000 a year from the [[Biotech
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• Genetic Alliance UK
  ...May 2011 </ref> Its stated role is to promote awareness and understanding of such disorders. It is funded by, among others, [[GlaxoSmithKline]], [[Merck ...ine clinical genetics resource [[Genepool]] along with [[Juliet Tizzard]] of [[Progress Educational Trust]].
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• John Gillott
  ...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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• National Advertising Council
  ...it was known as the [[National Advertising Council]] but later changed its name to the [[Advertising Council]] often called the Ad Council. ...|Japanese]] submarines might start forest fires by shelling the west coast of the United States.
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• Doug Powell
  ...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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• Forward Scotland
  ...cy'<ref>Forward Scotland Website [http://www.forward-scotland.org.uk/ Home Page]</ref> ...op and support innovative practical projects that demonstrate the benefits of sustainable development
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• International Food Information Council
  ...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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• Peter Lachmann
  ...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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• Peter Lutman
  ...0/2003)]</ref> Rothamsted Research (formerly IACR) is part of a consortium of three research groups which carried out the UK government's farmscale trial Lutman was a co-author of a report to the government on the progress of the trials.<ref>FoE Biotech Mailout, March 2000, Vol 6, Issue 2 [http://mai
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• Henry I. Miller
  ...]", Hoover Institution, accessed 7 February 2009.</ref> The rapid approval of human insulin is even claimed as "an FDA record at the time".<ref>"Bonner C ...ues". From 1989 to 1994, he was the "founding director of the FDA's Office of Biotechnology".<ref>"[http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/miller_h.html Hen
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• Nichols-Dezenhall
  ...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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• George Paterson
  ...s Agency]]. At the first meeting of the FSA's board in Scotland, the topic of GM dominated the agenda. Dr Paterson was reported as saying, "Openness, acc ...009</ref> These accusations are based, in particular, on an unpublished 35-page expert report written by John Verrall, a UK-based pharmaceutical chemist an
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• PG Economics
  [[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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• John Pickett
  Prof '''John Pickett''' is a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]] and an expert in plant chemistry who works at [[Rotha ...ran a spoiler piece based on an attack by Prof Pickett, the only reviewer of the paper to publicly argue against publication.
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• Peter Raven
  ...s and honours. ''TIME'' magazine honoured him for his tireless championing of conservation and biodiversity as a 'Hero for the Planet'.<ref>Roger Rosenb ...accessed March 27 2009</ref> and the commercial development and acceptance of GM crops is something he's convinced sustainable agriculture requires.
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• Regester Larkin
  ...ester Larkin]] homepage circa 2003<ref>Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 7 August 2003 http://replay.web.archive.org/20020807002303/http://www.reges ...ting in an environment of unprecedented scepticism, risk aversion and lack of trust. This is compounded by a 24/7 media, the Internet and sophisticated a
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• Matt Ridley
  ...Result], House of Lords, acc 29 October 2014. The vote followed the death of [[Earl Ferrers]] </ref> Ridley was chairman of [[Northern Rock]] from 2004 to 2007, resigning after Northern Rock experien
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• Rothamsted Research
  ...ac.uk/corporate/OwnershipAndFunding.html Ownership & funding], Web Archive of 20 Nov 2009, accessed 18 Oct 2013.</ref> ...'s purpose is described on Rothamsted's website as aiding "the advancement of agricultural science through providing support for Rothamsted Research."<re
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• Institute for Public Policy Research
  ...ty, the Institute for Public Policy Research and [[McKinsey]] have the ear of people in high places. ...measured gets managed", could apply to Labour's schools policy... the web of connections between 10 Downing Street and McKinsey is rivalled only by that
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• Royal Institution of Great Britain
  ...'''Royal Institution''' was founded in 1799 and claims a 200 year history of communicating scientific issues to the general public through its events, i ...January 2010 and reportedly within hours of the redundancy was locked out of her grace-and-favour flat in central London. She said that she would sue th
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• Fishburn Hedges
  It has worked for some of the most controversial corporations, including [[Shell]] and [[British Amer ...ng & Insights, which Fishburn describes as “the strategic planning heart of the business in a communications world increasingly driven by research, dat
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• Connect Public Affairs Ltd
  ...Chair of the [[Association of Professional Political Consultants]] and as of February 2009 its Deputy Chair. ...harge of handling Connect's day to day operations with [[Laura Blake]]<ref name="PAN"> Rod Muir [https://www.publicaffairsnews.com/articles/news/morris-plo
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• Scientific Alliance
  ....uk/society/2001/jul/11/guardiansocietysupplement7 Hard rockers: The views of the green lobby should be challenged, according to a new alliance]", The Gu ...-alliance.org/the_debate.htm website], Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 28 February 2007, accessed 02 February 2015.</ref>
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• Walter Lippmann
  [[File:Walter Lippmann.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Portrait of journalist Walter Lippmann by the photographer Pirie MacDonald]] ...le studying at Harvard University he became a socialist and was co-founder of the Harvard Socialist Club and edited the Harvard Monthly.
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• Houston Consulting Europe
  ...sulting''' is an EU PR and lobbying firm run by [[John Houston]] the chair of the [[European Public Affairs Consultants Association]], the lobbyists' lob ...tary Financial Services Forum]] (EPFSF). The EPFSF brings together Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and lobbyists from [[Deutsche Bank]], [[Citi
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• Philip Stott
  ...f London and a leading climate change sceptic. He also edits the ''Journal of Biogeography''. ...Radio 4's Home Planet.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sdz0 Home page], Home Planet website, accessed 3 Oct 2009</ref>
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• Science Media Centre
  ...f 'an independent venture working to promote the voices, stories and views of the scientific community to the national news media when science is in the ...nstitution of Great Britain (RIGB)... and its financial structure was that of a restricted fund maintained by the RIGB. The RIGB acted as a very successf
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• Information Research Department
  ...e covert [[Information Research Department]], 1978: [[David Leigh]] 'Death of the department that never was'. ''[[The Guardian]]'', 27 January 1978, p. 1 ...head of the IRD was [[Ray Whitney]], later a [[Conservative Party]] member of parliament and junior minister.
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• Sustainable Development Network
  ...ghts, the rule of law, and free trade".<ref>[http://www.sdnetwork.net/main/page.php?page_id=1 Homepage], Sustainable Development Network website, accessed .../or [[Roger Bate]]. Others include the Environment Unit at the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] (IEA), the [[European Science and Environment Forum]] (E
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• World Sugar Research Organisation
  The [[World Sugar Research Organisation]] is the international lobbying arm of the sugar industry. ...rnational Life Sciences Institute]]. With members from literally hundreds of food industry TNCs this is a key food industry lobby group. It was set up
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• Grayling
  *Its public affairs capabilities started with the formation of [[Westminster Strategy]] in 1986 and were gradually expanded to Brussels, E *[[RS Live]] became part of Grayling in 1995 with specialist expertise in event management.
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• Michael Burrell
  ...</ref> and deputy chair of the [[European Centre for Public Affairs]]<ref name="MP"> [http://www.govknow.com/training-event.html?id=473&info=speaker Influ ...of Grayling ''The Independent'' newspaper reported Burrell revealing some of the industry's lobbying tactics:
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• International Public Relations Association
  ...h professional development. Amusingly, the IPRA aims to promote a "charter of media transparency".{{ref|28}} *{{note|28}} IPRA web site [http://www.ipra.org Home Page]
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• GCI Group
  ...bought by the mammoth [[WPP]] Group. Apco, founded in 1984 as a subsidiary of the D.C. law firm [[Arnold & Porter]], was purchased by Grey, a major adver ...analytics, quantification and measurement in the development and execution of our recommendations. These principles guide the firm's commitment to suppor
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• Mike Wilson
  ...ebsite, accessed 1 June 2009</ref> Prior to HRI he was the deputy director of the [[Scottish Crop Research Institute]] (SCRI). ...nsiderable commercial interest and inventorship on five independent suites of internationally-granted or pending patents for general biotechnological app
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• The Clandestine Caucus
  ...ligence connected groups which covertly influenced the political landscape of the post-war UK including the [[Economic League]], The [[Council on Foreign A surprising number of Labour Party members believe that it was once a socialist party, began as a
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• 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group
  ...thumb|right|700px|UK 15 Psyops Unit logo from the Internet Archive version of the MoD website [http://web.archive.org/web/20060728161217/http://www.army. ...eengrab of the UK 15 Psyops Unit webpage from the Internet Archive version of the MoD website [http://web.archive.org/web/20060728161217/http://www.army.
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• Bernard Ingham
  ...e]]. <ref> [http://www.speakers.co.uk/Retro/5135.htm Biography] on website of [[Celebrity Speakers Associates (CSA)]], 28 October 2003.</ref> Ingham was also a director of [[Hill and Knowlton]], one of the largest public relations companies in Britain, from September 1991 to J
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