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  • ...Portal|Arms Trade Lobbying]] | [[Brexit Portal|Brexit]] | [[Climate_Portal|Climate]] | [[Counter-Terrorism Portal|Counter-Terrorism]] | [http://powerbase.info '''Our [[Brexit Portal|guide to Brexit lobbying]] aims to shed light on the people and organisations jostling for position to use this 'once-in-a-lifetime opp
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  • ...st ideology. Its constituent organisations are led and largely composed of people associated with the defunct [[Revolutionary Communist Tendency]]/[[Revoluti ...ls, or launched new projects with more general aims that have also engaged people from different traditions, or none. These include Spiked and the Institute
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  • {{Template:Climate badge}} ...ing is a leading critic of the economic costs of the Kyoto Protocol and of climate change mitigation strategies.
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  • The '''European Sound Climate Policy Coalition''' is a nascent front group set up by the [[Competitive En ...ordinary American plan to destroy Europe's support for the Kyoto treaty on climate change.
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  • ...variety of organisations and actors, such as the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI), business corporations, artists and writers, the BBC, unspecified &#3 ...39;, which would effectively generate a group of deserving and undeserving people and would even further the discourse on "rights and responsibilities". <ref
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  • ...try as the SDC concluded that "nuclear power is not the answer to tackling climate change or security of supply". According to the SDC its report "draws toget :''... a melting pot that brings together people and organisations with an interest in international affairs. We provide an
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  • ==People== ...ude all sorts of corporate lobby groups and the burgeoning lobbying and PR industry. Scottish based TNCs such as [[HBOS]] and [[Scottish Power]] are pretty wel
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  • ...n Netanyahu]], President [[Shimon Peres]], former Deputy Prime Minister of Industry and Trade [[Natan Sharansky]] and by [[Milton Friedman]], widely considered ...ase of large tracts of government-owned land; deregulation of the building industry and break-up of building materials monopolies; simplification and abbreviat
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  • ...these two networks he tries to shape perceptions of companies or business people."<ref>Robert Peston, ''Who Runs Britain?'', Hodder & Stoughton, 2008</ref> The Brunswick Group was founded in 1987. In 2009 it employed 440 people based in 15 offices in 11 countries. It has developed a robust internationa
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  • ...n independent free enterprise corporate lobby group by business leaders in industry. It came into existence to combat nationalisation of key British industries ...ht|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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  • ...als group represented by 350 companies on all continents employing 110,200 people. ...ide and outside the company, as well as representatives from subsidiaries, industry organisations, banks, unions and research organisations make up the Supervi
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  • {{Template:Climate badge}} ...nd vociferous anti-environmental think tanks in Washington, it is the main climate change-sceptical organisation in Washington as well as promoting "Sound Sci
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  • {{Template:Climate badge}} ...Accessed 25 January 2011 </ref><ref>Edward H. Crane, [http://www.cato.org/people/edward-crane Cato Institute: Edward H. Crane Biography]", Cato Institute, A
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  • *'''Climate:''' Avid critic of the [[Kyoto protocol]]. ===Climate===
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  • ...mer-Marxist leader turned far right anti-semite, had been one of the first people to use the term 'terrorist' in relation to environmentalists. As early as 1 ...t with a broad-ranging, loose-knit coalition of interest groups, including industry-funded front groups and 'grassroots groups', often organised by PR consulta
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  • Avery is the originator of the 'E. Coli myth' - the idea that people who eat organic foods are at a significantly higher risk of food poisoning. ...ing to recent data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), people who eat organic and natural foods are eight times as likely as the rest of
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  • .../funding_climate_deniers.pdf Concealing their sources - who funds Europe's climate change deniers?], CEO Report p.4,Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> ...li claims in a publicity stunt to launch their book. This involved telling people that:
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  • ...help BAT in fighting the litigation launched against tobacco companies by people harmed by smoking. Walzer describes Brown as "a lecturer at the [[Universit ...this she means the trend which we all recognise from the United States for people to be unwilling to take the consequences of their own actions. There is con
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  • ...matter most... We make sure that our clients know the politics, policies, people and process that drive decisions. We advise our clients on what to say, how ...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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  • ...ight|200px| Durodie's 1999 pamphlet ''Poisonous Dummies'', for the Tobacco industry funded [[European Science and Environment Forum]]]] The fact that all these people had long term connections to each other and have been part of the same extr
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  • *encouraging developing country governments to improve the climate for private investment from the UK and elsewhere. ==People==
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  • ...Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and substitute member for the [[Industry, Research and Energy Committee]].<ref>Rowell, Andy, "[http://spinwatch.org/ ...England', which is of course a venture capital firm set up to fund biotech industry developments.<ref>European Parliament, [http://www.spinwatch.org/files/wiki
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  • ...racinated individuals like myself, and like the largely middle class young people, with little or no understanding of socialism or of the history of the soci ...rubella (MMR) controversy reveals some of the key features of the cultural climate affecting matters of health and illness in contemporary society. A high lev
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  • ...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 ...reports. “They included ‘shopping basket’ studies [analyses of items people have bought without taking account of factors such as date of harvest], whi
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  • ...when he retired at the rank of Flight Lieutenant.<ref>entry in ''Debrett's People of Today'' (Debrett's Peerage Ltd, November 2007)</ref> ...aired at the time by ISC stalwart [[Leonard Schapiro]] (other ISC oriented people on the board or advisory Board included [[Julius Gould]] and [[S. E. Finer]
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  • ...pport to the vaccination programme. However, fierce lobbying from the food industry forced a U-turn: both [[Peter Blackburn]], the then chief executive of [[Ne In a letter written to [[Tony Blair]], Blackburn explained that the industry opposed vaccination because &#39;we were very afraid of the consequences on
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  • *Placing industry people on relevant government panels to ensure that industry itself decides how or if it should be regulated. ...nt running through the promotion of corporate interests, is the placing of industry representatives on research funding councils and in supposedly independent
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  • ...dustry in the UK, a Customer Consultation and Periodic Review in the Water Industry, and a review of regulatory policy in the energy sector. ...f "information" to consumers and the public is controlled by a minority of people within campaign groups and sections of the media, the ability of consumers
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  • H&K has created and refined many of the industry's key PR strategies and techniques over the years. It was labelled by one f ...80 billion in damages, finally reached court. They argued that the tobacco industry carried out a fifty year campaign of deception. At its heart was Hill and K
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  • ...nge deniers?], CEO Report p.3,Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> Some unknown industry / industries are now funding ESEF / IPN to counter the environmental moveme IPN's mission is to 'share ideas that free people'. It believes in de-regulation but that 'where regulations are necessary...
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  • ...ce greenhouse gas production will result in a dramatic change in the power industry worldwide, and the main beneficiary would be nuclear.” He also predicted ==People==
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  • ...al Review of Commercialized Transgenic Crops', commissioned by the biotech industry and conducted by James, are widely reported in the media. However, there a ...s ISAAA's figures are 20 times higher than even those claimed by a biotech industry source.
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  • ...ews.com/news/RR-prices-increase/ Roundup Ready seed prices increase], Farm Industry News, 31 Aug 2004, acc 8 Jul 2010</ref> 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]].<
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  • ...Strategies]]. Moore has worked for the farmed salmon industry, the logging industry, the nuclear and biotechnology industries among others. ...e into a band of scientific illiterates who use Gestapo tactics to silence people'.<ref>Patrick Moore, "[http://www.greenspirit.com/printable.cfm?msid=26 Do
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  • {{Template:Climate badge}} ...e, p139-143; S. Rampton & J. Stauber (2001) Trust Us, We’re Experts, How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Yours Future, Tarcher / Putnam, p272-2
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  • {{Template:Climate badge}} [[File:Adapt or Die.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Adapt or Die'', climate change denial, Edited by [[Kendra Okonski]], [[International Policy Network
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  • Fishburn Hedges was the organizer of the tobacco industry front group [[Associates for Research into the Science of Enjoyment]], or A ...that [[BT Cellnet]] "had been making unauthorised debits from thousands of people's bank and credit card accounts, then cynically fobbing off their victims,"
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  • ...houses [[NHS England]] and the [[Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry]]]] Founded in 1952, the company employs approximately 1856 people worldwide and in 2014 generated revenues of $734 million.
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  • ...ntific consensus on issues that do not fit with that agenda - for example, climate change. ...esources and Our Technology, with respective subheadings: Biodiversity and Climate Change; Energy, Waste & Recycling; and Chemicals and Transport.<ref>See Sci
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  • ...rforming against other marketing groups, despite a general recovery in the industry. Fresh uncertainty about the future of Havas was raised by the intervention ==Talking big on climate change==
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  • ...in 2003 and 2004 received $40,000 and $80,000 respectively for its "Global Climate Change Education Efforts". ...no justification for the Kyoto Protocol.<ref>Source: Singer talk at CNE: "Climate Policy from Rio to Kyoto" 9/6/00</ref>
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  • ...of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and a leading climate change sceptic. He also edits the ''Journal of Biogeography''. ==Climate change denial and pro-GM blogs==
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  • ...ritish press — led by the BBC, which treats the Confederation of British Industry with the deference the Vatican gets in Rome — is overwhelmingly conservat ...d the SMC team several times that the impetus for the initiative came from people who are concerned about improving the image of science and renewing public
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  • ...ww.stockholm-network.org/downloads/publications/Climate_of_Opinion_1_1.pdf Climate of Opinion: The Stockholm Network Energy and Environment Update] Accessed 1
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  • ...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 ...rfing]]' campaigns PR helps to maintain a legislative environment on which industry can avoid real change.
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  • ...ted, is a long-time associate of Blair's Science Minister, the former food-industry maganate and biotech investor, Lord [[David Sainsbury]].<ref>Nyta Mann, [ht Taverne was also involved in the setting up of the biotech-industry supported [[Science Media Centre]] directed by [[Fiona Fox]] (also part of
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  • :'a completely integrated society and economy in which industry would have its organisation of workers and management, the two sets of orga ...Hannon's Industrial Group chiefly wanted government protection of British industry against foreign competition, but, to quote Hannon, they also 'wanted the la
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  • ...tre is a conservative media 'watchdog' funded by [[Exxon]] and involved in climate change denial. ...id not advance public understanding of the scientific realities concerning climate change, but has served the agenda of those bent on imposing a costly and on
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  • ...romote nuclear power that is linked to all the main figures in the nuclear industry, from BNFL to British Energy.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/2001022519091 ...rance regimes, end discrimination against nuclear power in the form of the climate change levy; and end the manipulation of the planning system to prolong enq
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  • 'Welcome to '''NuclearSpin''', a website that tracks the companies, people and organisations behind the campaign to build new nuclear power stations i ...et up in 2006 to track a massive lobbying campaign launched by the nuclear industry. In that same year, the British Government began a public consultation whic
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