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• Main Page
  ...ing:0.2em 0.4em;"> Welcome to Powerbase - your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR</h2> ...px]]'''[[Powerbase:About|Powerbase]] is a free guide to networks of power, lobbying, public relations and the communications activities of governments and othe
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• Bell 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 September 2017 following an inter ...y of Chime until a management buy-out led by Bell in July 2012. {{Template:Lobbying Portal badge}}
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• Cato Institute
  ...b.org/sierra/200207/thinktank_printable.asp Rethinking the Think Tanks How industry-funded "experts" twist the environmental debate]Sierra Club magazine, Acces ...b.org/sierra/200207/thinktank_printable.asp Rethinking the Think Tanks How industry-funded "experts" twist the environmental debate]Sierra Club magazine, Acces
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• Erinys International
  ...omatic operative (in the 1960s and 1970s) who previously ran pro-Apartheid lobbying and propaganda operations between the 1980s and the fall of Apartheid in 19 ...t in 2003 to guard Iraq oil installations and according to Newsday &#39;an industry source familiar with some of the internal affairs said Chalabi received a $
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• Aegis Defence Services
  ...ines with the [[Sandline affair]] when he was caught shipping 30 tonnes of arms to [[Sierra Leone]] in apparent violation of a UN weapons embargo and arre .... Aegis' membership bid comes just as the IPOA is trying to reposition the industry as for-profit providers of armed men as peacekeepers. The IPOA rejected Spi
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• Bell Pottinger Public Affairs
  ...g_Portal_badge}} '''Bell Pottinger Public Affairs''' (BPPA) was one of the lobbying divisions of [[Bell Pottinger Communications]], one of the largest public r ...et to meet a member of the industry who does… The real issue is that the industry needs a public voice with the ability to make a convincing case and to disa
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• Food Standards Agency
  ...sts of producers ahead of those of consumers. The FSA's independence from 'industry interests' is of 'paramount importance', according to the then head of the ...s' has asserted the 'paramount importance' of the FSA's independence from 'industry .
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• Paul Wilkinson
  ...f up to £10,000 to fund 'a major research project on terrorist threats to industry by product contamination and methods of combatting them.'<ref>Carol Leonar ...ope that our graduates would put their training to good use in government, industry, the armed forces, the Foreign Office or the law," Wilkinson told ''The Tim
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• Edelman
  ...houses [[NHS England]] and the [[Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry]]]] ==Lobbying in the UK==
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• Havas
  ...rforming against other marketing groups, despite a general recovery in the industry. Fresh uncertainty about the future of Havas was raised by the intervention Havas is not so heavily involved in public relations and lobbying as the big four communications groups. According to PR Week :
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• Burson-Marsteller
  ...(B-M) was established in 1953 and grew to become one of the biggest PR and lobbying agencies in the world. It is owned by communications conglomerate [[WPP]]. ...s (PR) agencies in the world and also the most notorious. When helping its industry clients to escape environmental legislation or sprucing up the image of som
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• Areva
  Areva is a key player in the UK's civil nuclear industry, with stakes in the [[Hinkley Point C nuclear power station]], and [[Nuclea .../stop-plutonium/en/TransPu_en.pdf ''The Transports in the French Plutonium Industry''] Greenpeace, February, 2003.</ref>
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• New Defence Agenda
  ...enda is a think tank run by [[Giles Merrit]] and funded by US and EU-based arms producers. From 1 February 2006 it was renamed [[Security and Defence Agend ...ing &#39;civil society language&#39;, Merrit proposed, suggesting that the industry could present itself as "protecting civil society and the freedom of citize
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• John Hutton
  ...17 Hutton was appointed chair of [[Energy UK]], the energy industry's main lobbying group. ...after stepping down as an MP, Hutton took over as Chair of the [[Nuclear Industry Association]] trade body.<ref name="moves"> [http://www.publicaffairsnews.c
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• American Security Council, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry
  ...ing funding and logistical support for many other members of the terrorism industry. Like Heritage, it is important because of its size, influence, and extreme ...these conferences was the [[Aircraft Industries Association]], a trade and lobbying organization, and one of the groups that had pressed the U.S. government to
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• Balfour Beatty
  ...s also involved in the Pergau dam in Malaysia where British aid lubricated arms deals with Malaysia.{{ref|64}} ...e of Commons & Deputy Prime Minister 1989-90. BICC has supported [[Aims of Industry]], the [[Economic League]] and [[British United Industrialists]].
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• QinetiQ
  ==Lobbying firms== [[Category:Arms Industry]][[Category:Science Media Centre]]
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• GlaxoSmithKline
  Industry areas: Prescription Medicines, Vaccines, and Consumer Health Products (i.e. ...contributes to the ‘quality of human life’ by sitting on the board of arms manufacturer [[United Technologies]], the maker of the Blackhawk helicopter
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• Pfizer
  ...y effective, other companies took a similar lead) It is manifested in the "arms race" of escalating numbers of sales representatives, particularly in the U ...about because the old mission set in the 1990s (to lead the pharmaceutical industry) had been achieved. He explains: ‘Becoming most values simply means that
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• David Cameron
  ...a fixer to the Saudi Royal Family, including the controversial Al Yamamah arms deal with the UK. ...president of bankrupted Russian oil giant [[Yukos]]. He is now a UK energy industry investor.
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• MPs for Hire:Agents of Influence: MPs and Lobbying Companies
  ...l servants by ministers for a policy meeting. But in the discreet world of lobbying, 'prayers' has an altogether different connotation. ...ntary gossip to detailed information about government plans for a specific industry.
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• MPs for Hire:Ministers and Money Men
  ...denied that he had any direct or indirect interest in companies receiving arms contracts for the war. Yet his family owned £140,000 worth of shares in Ky ...liament and then administer a £2 million subsidy to the merchant shipping industry. One of the recipients of that grant was Moor Line Ltd.25 In 1939 Neville C
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• Tim Spicer
  :1998 Arms to Africa Affair. Testifies to House of Commons over Sandline intervention Spicer was involved in a lobbying campaign which contributed to the British Government's decision to free Wri
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• Hakluyt
  :::''"The idea was to do for industry what we had done for the government"''<br>&mdash; Hakluyt co-founder [[Chri ...imited]].<ref>James Quinn [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/9106177/Sir-John-Rose-joins-intelligence-specialist-Hakluyt.html Si
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• Charles Powell
  Apropos of the [[Al-Yamamah]] Arms Deal and the role of [[Wafic Said]], Gambill (2003) stated in [[Middle East ...'s private secretary and Mr Said was involved in the 20 billion Al Yamamah arms contract between Britain and Saudi Arabia. In 1994, having left the Foreign
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• Portland PR
  ...dge‬}}{{Template:Brexit badge}}'''Portland''' is an international PR and lobbying consultancy founded in 2001 by [[Tim Allan]], a former adviser to UK prime ==Brexit lobbying==
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• Peter Levene
  Levene has been the chairman of US arms giant [[General Dynamics]] UK division since 2001, and is vice chairman of Levene started his career in the defence industry with [[United Scientific Holdings]] (1963-85) a small company that grew int
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• Paul Drayson
  ===Lobbying role=== ===Lobbying and science policy activities===
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• Carlyle Group
  ...aul their operations and make them attractive (for the right price) to the industry's elite, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin. ...they appointed their first in-house lobbyist and regulatory expert as the industry faces growing governmental obstacles, including a possible tax increase. Da
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• Andrew Cahn
  He has been a non-executive director of US arms firm [[General Dynamics]] since 2012. Cahn was the Director of Government and Industry Affairs, [[British Airways]] from May 2000-2006 with responsibility for lev
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• Hill and Knowlton: Corporate Crimes
  ...‘Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry’, p.150; Johan Carlisle, 1993, Covert Action Quarterly 44.</ref> The cont ...members, USA Engage is really dominated by 50-100 active members. The oil industry is heavily represented. [[Unocal]], notorious for their Burmese gas pipelin
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• Raytheon
  ...on subsidiary. It bought various businesses in the defence and electronics industry, culminating in the 1997 merger with [[Hughes Electronics]], a $9.5 billion ...at Raytheon worked on with TRW (TRW is a company that provides the defence industry with technology and services), was held up by Congress due to repeated cost
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• Raytheon: Influence/Lobbying
  ==Lobbying== ...erner, Liipfert et al) Raytheon budgets at least $1.6 million annually for lobbying.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
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• BAe Systems
  '''BAE Systems plc''' is a global arms and military service company, with interests also in civilian avionics and ...nt, A., Perlo-Freeman, S., Wezeman, P. & Wezeman, S., ‘The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies, 2014’, SIPRI Fact Sheet, Dec.
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• BAE Systems: Who, Where, How Much?
  ...MBDA is jointly owned by BAE Systems (37.5%), [[EADS]] (37.5%) and Italian arms giant [[Finmeccanica]] (25%). {{ref|2}} ...company until recently; the other 80% were owned by [[EADS]], the European arms manufacturer's coalition. In late 2006, BAE agreed to sell its stake to EAD
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• BAe Systems: Influence/Lobbying
  ...ts sheer size and its ability to use its importance to the British defence industry to its advantage. ==Monopoly over the defence industry==
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• BAe Systems: Corporate Crimes
  ...emocratic system, in which the military retains a large portion of power). Arms exports began as early as 1978, but the biggest controversy began in Novemb ...’ massive influence over the Labour Government (see section on Influence/Lobbying). Despite continuing concerns over the use of Hawk jets in East Timor, the
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• Better Regulation Task Force
  *[[Simon Ward]] Consultant: hospitality industry* ...ist paint manufacturer whose clients include [[Rolls Royce]], [[Ford]] and arms manufacturers [[Vickers]], [[GEC]], [[GKN]] and [[BAE]] Systems. He is also
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• Pauline Neville-Jones
  ...ence issues despite various highly profitable directorships in the defence industry. Her position as chair of the scandal-ridden [[Qinetiq]] and its relationsh ...2006) [http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html How the public relations industry sold the Gulf War to the U.S. — The mother of all clients.]</ref>
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• Manpower
  ...ethical’ foreign policy, which at one stage was threatening to restrict arms sales; the Hinduja brothers’ sponsorship of the ‘Faith Zone’ may have “The net job gains figure in the telecommunications industry is minus 2 — down from plus 28 a year ago — which Manpower says is the
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• Written in Flames
  ==NATIONALIZED INDUSTRY== ...-executive directors. Instead their bosses are technicians from within the industry. On the board of the Electricity Council, the company behind the [[CEGB]],
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• National Farmers' Union
  ==Brexit lobbying== ...by Brexit as much as farming. As a result, the National Farmers' Union is lobbying hard to get its messages across to politicians and the public. It says it i
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• Carillion
  *[[Grayling]]: Carillion was a client of lobbying firm [[Grayling]] since at least early 2014. ...o represent Carillion, as Finsbury stopped its membership of the voluntary lobbying body, the [[APPC]], which publishes a register of clients.
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• Dupont: Corporate crimes
  ==Arms Manufacturing== ...DuPont as providing synthetic plastics, rubber and textiles to the defence industry. {{ref|6}} According to the ''Ethical Matters'' magazine website, DuPont wa
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• Dupont
  ...bal science and technology company. It is involved in a range of different industry areas, including high-performance materials, synthetic fibres, electronics, ...ndustrial markets, advanced electronic materials to the global electronics industry and holographic optical components and holograms for electronics, security
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 7: Peace and Cold War
  ...this up-front campaign seems to have fallen upon the fledgling "[[Aims of Industry]]" which had been founded in 1942 to campaign against wartime restrictions ...amined the work carried out in the past by the Economic League and Aims of Industry Ltd., and is satisfied that these non-party, educational organisations are
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• Countryside Alliance
  ...arbitration, venture and development capital. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and he is the author of over 40 publications and principal edit ...CI]] and ethically-challenged mining company [[Rio Tinto]], not to mention arms and tobacco companies. {{ref|50}}
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• Procter & Gamble: Corporate Crimes
  ...ess than popular with the public. "There is a high suspicion of the pharma industry. Greed, dishonesty and fraud are some of its associations. The clinical tri ...als and their young. The images include a lion cub nestled in its mother's arms; a baby elephant being guided over a fallen tree by his mother's trunk; a y
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• J Sainsbury Plc: Influence / Lobbying
  ==Lobbying Groups== ...stingly, UNICE has been picked out by Corporate Europe Observatory for its lobbying against binding agreements on carbon emissions, (see: www.xs4all.nl/~ceo/gr
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• Tony Blair: Tony's Friends
  ...by the Labour Government, including Lord Simpson former Chief Executive of arms manufacturers Marconi and Government adviser Lord Haskins. Several others a ...Government for providing funding and business training for the bioscience industry and "above all the Government's sustained investment in the science base ha
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