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• Walt Disney
  ...31.9 billion. {{ref|wiki}} This is a fine example of globalisation and how it has affected developing countries in the way of sweatshops and their treatm ...tions. Every worker should have the right to safe conditions. 'However it is important to be aware that the Disney Company has a long history of puni
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• Bivings Group
  ...ion to Washington DC, it has satellite offices in Brussels and Tokyo, and it previously had offices in Chicago and New York. ...g. Its slogan is 'Wired engagement. Global reach. Lasting Impact.' It has, it tells us, developed 'Internet advocacy' campaigns for corporate America sin
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• Michael Fitzpatrick
  ...rades, contacts and full members, were by and large simply not socialists. It took an unconscionable length of time for this to dawn on me, and to recogn ...drew Wakefield]] claimed that patients had suffered adverse reactions from it. In a 2004 paper published in the ''[[British Medical Bulletin]]'' Fitzpatr
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• Food Standards Agency
  ...lso lists as a key aim earning 'people's trust by what we do and how we do it'. This emphasis is unsurprising. The main reason for the establishment of t ...on School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, July 2009, acc 30 May 2010</ref> it had commissioned from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (L
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• Food and Drink Federation: Corporate Crimes
  ...nimals from being needlessly slaughtered, often under inhumane conditions. It could also have saved the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds in compe ...at it is keen to support the consumer&#39;s wishes of having GM-free food, it is simultaneously campaigning heavily against any further &#39;tightening u
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• Tony Gilland
  ...eave debating matters until March 2014, according to his Linkedin profile, it is likely he began the PGCE in either 2013 or 2014. Prior to this, from its ...tegy' and argued the project was based on many assumptions based on little direct evidence<ref>See GMWatch, [http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/43-2004/10
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• John Gillott
  ...ontroversial about [[Alastair Kent]]'s lobbying for the Directive was that it was at total odds with GIG's declared policy of ''opposing'' attempts to pa ...ott noted in an article at the time, 'by environmental campaigners who say it is an aspect of the 'race to commodify life' which amounts to 'biopiracy' '
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• Council on Foreign Relations, extract from The Higher Circles
  ...rall framework for American foreign policy, I do not want to overemphasize it, and we will see that there are other links between big business and big-go ...indexed in the Social Science and Humanities Index. While this may suggest it is not very important, there are several ways to establish its crucial role
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• Mick Hume
  ...ine]] (which he launched, originally as [[Living Marxism]], in 1988) until it was forced to close in 2000 following a libel suit brought by ITN. Hume is ...ournalism-of-Attachment-Mick-Hume-Informinc-LM-Special-1997 ''Whose War is it Anyway? The Dangers of the Journalism of Attachment''], InformInc (LM) Ltd
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• Uzi Arad
  ...World Resources, published by New York's [[Council on Foreign Relations]]. It argued that there would be no major resource-related conflict in the 1980s. ::It was while he was stationed in Paris that he developed a circle of influenti
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• Alastair Kent
  ...ance UK]], which was known as [[Genetic Interest Group]] until 2010, since it began in 1993. When named the [[Genetic Interest Group]] [[John Gillott]] w ...ion-makers by talking about saving lives, ending hunger and creating jobs. It was not until after the event of the 1997 vote, in which the efforts of Ken
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• Dean Kleckner
  ...ons of Kleckner's statement, there is no evidence that anyone has starved (let alone millions!) because of such concern over GM-contamination of food aid, ...r objective? How many iron deficient women must die in childbirth for your direct-mail fund raising efforts? How many more lives will you sacrifice for your
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• Channapatna S. Prakash
  In 2000, a USDA report noted that it had "recently signed an agreement with sub-Saharan African countries and Tu ...genetically-modified crops have longer shelf life'. This is simply untrue. It is possible that Prakash was misreported, but if so he appears to have made
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• Truth About Trade and Technology
  ...ons of Kleckner's statement, there is no evidence that anyone has starved (let alone millions!) because of such concern over GM-contamination of food aid, ...r objective? How many iron deficient women must die in childbirth for your direct-mail fund raising efforts? How many more lives will you sacrifice for your
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• The Clandestine Caucus
  A surprising number of Labour Party members believe that it was once a socialist party, began as a ...apparatus for manipulating public opinion had grown inordinately, enabling it - on its own estimate - to confront the spectre of Bolshevism and survive.
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• James Lovelock
  ...sponses tend to regulate the state of the Earth's environment, maintaining it in a state of balance or homeostasis. He regularly gains column inches in t ...Chernobyl and it was full of 10-year-old children who were suffering as a direct result of Chernobyl. The doctors confirmed that. There were more than 45 pe
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• Attack is the best defence
  ...r refining company, and asked to stop the distribution of the book because it was not seemly for one food manufacturer to &#39;knock&#39; the product of ...whether their product does in fact produce ill effects. Two or three times it really appeared that they were going to help us financially in our research
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• Green and Black's
  ...fairtrade logo and to that of organic ingredients. ''"We offered to trade direct with the growers, paying them a premium for their organic cocoa and an addi ...product; it is increasingly becoming about where a product comes from, how it is made and the company's own beliefs on important issues. Green & Black's
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• Supermarkets and planning
  ...is used in influencing legislation and all kinds of government decisions. It is for this reason that lobbying is of particular use to supermarkets who n It is a known fact that there is a very close relationship between the governm
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• Merck and Co. Inc.
  ...1 per day and, in Africa, economic growth is slowing by 1.3% per year as a direct result of malaria alone." (''The Herald'' (Glasgow), August 20, 2004) ...it could have caused up to 140,000 cases of heart disease in the US since it was licensed in 1999."
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• MPs for Hire:Agents of Influence: MPs and Lobbying Companies
  It is, of course, not unusual for politicians to talk to lobbyists. But at 'pr ...evement. He revitalised the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, making it more broadly based. His company, later to become [[Charles Barker, Watney a
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• Diageo: Corporate Crimes
  ...tember 2007)</ref> The most important issue raised by the WHO is that, in direct contradiction to the claims of the industry, the greatest burden on society ...CAMRA also say that the major multinationals undermine local tastes, which it sees as an important part of local communities, as well as the ability of s
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• MPs for Hire:Whom does your MP Serve?
  As the lobbying activities of hired MPs are conducted in great secrecy, it is difficult to assess the extent of their influence. But [[Lord Rees-Mogg] ...use their best efforts to run the business successfully and profitably... It is essential that part-time directors should have the same psychological co
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• Solidarity (UK)
  ...Party or the [[Labour Party]]. And the group has not been around for ages: it disintegrated as a national organisation in the early 1980s and became no m ...g what the right-wing press called a “do-it-yourself abortion guide”. (It was actually nothing of the kind, but the story is too complex to relate he
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• Frank Gaffney
  ...demanding government handouts — and the end of America as we have known it.' <ref name= guide> [https://www.splcenter.org/20161025/field-guide-anti-mu ...ore stealthy kind, or civilizational jihad as the Muslim Brotherhood calls it,' Gaffney said in an October 2011 article in ''Newsmax''. 'We’re witnessi
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• CIA Media Operations in Chile, Jamaica, and Nicaragua
  ...ns, by virtually taking over the major newspaper in that country and using it as an instrument of destabilization. (Grenada closed the opposition newspap ...combined with the drastic changes of the front page, are so specific that it is possible to identify the Agency's hand in the effort. When the propagand
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• Unilever: Corporate Crimes
  ...urfboards to Chevrolets—was a tremendous success, according to Unilever. It created a much bigger Lipton Logo awareness amongst consumers.) Since the N ...al sales strategy. Only think of the ecological costs that come along with it (processing of products, packaging, waste processing, transport, etc. all i
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• Pauline Neville-Jones
  :Now it has emerged that Neville-Jones chairs a company providing military equipmen ...twelve, had answered questions concerning 9/11, such as “Why did they do it” by saying:
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• Scottish Enterprise: History
  ...t up and two years later the project was launched at the Dunblane Hydro. It has hardly met with a word of praise since. In the light of this it is clear that McFarlane would readily be attracted by a steering role in an
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• National Farmers' Union
  ...ing hard to get its messages across to politicians and the public. It says it is engaged in every aspect of the negotiations affecting farming. It has produced detailed briefings and hosted roadshows for members to engage
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• Pfizer: Corporate Crimes
  ...s the industry claims is that a large part of research is publicly funded. It is a general practice that research (in any given field) starts in the publ In September 1999, it was pointed out to the director of the NIH, Harold Varmus, that six HIV/Aid
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• Global Solutions Ltd.
  ...education contracts, meter readings and 'outsourced services'. In May 2004 it was announced that GSL was to be bought by two venture capital companies1, ...o benefit from the government's increasingly draconian immigration policy. It is also set to gain from the growing trends all over the world for more pri
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 3: 'Section D'
  ...he complex interconnections between the Radical Right and the Secret State it was [[John Baker White]], the veteran anti-communist and anti-socialist act ...ist tracts, White also published four important autobiographical books - ''It's Gone For Good'', ''The Big Lie'', ''Sabotage Is Suspected'' and ''True Bl
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 10: 'The Need for a Change of Direction'
  ...essed by such a change and should its success become so obvious, as I hope it will, that we finally throw of the shackles of socialism the necessity for ...aining its Industrial support with a sympathetic government in power. What it did not anticipate was the number of its own members who were - in the popu
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• Advanta: Corporate Crimes
  ...a full technology 'package' to clients. Even at the basic level of sales, it is difficult to get a clear picture. Advanta adds to the confusion. The com ...ontaminated oilseed rape seed had been sold to farmers across the country. It claimed that the GM contamination happened in Canada, when pollen from a GM
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• National Farmers' Union: Who does the NFU represent?
  ...ic or representative union at all. One Council member of the NFU describes it as "totally removed from the reality of grassroots farmers and not working ...one of the candidates was Devon farmer, Richard Haddock, whose advocacy of direct action made him popular with NFU grass roots members. When he stood in the
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• National Farmers' Union: Why the poor eyesight?
  ...entity crisis. It believes that representing the farming sector means that it should represent the interests of the agro-chemicals companies, big food pr ...rs have conducted government sponsored GM farm-scale trials on their land. It is likely that they were paid around £10,000 for each trial planted.28 See
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• Tesco Plc
  :"Tesco will just sail away. It will become unreachable, and the Competition Commission has perpetrated tha ...thes, electronic goods, consumer financial services and internet services. It now has four established UK formats: Tesco Express - a convenience store se
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• Tesco Plc: Corporate Crimes
  So is Tesco the environmentally friendly company it claims to be? The 'Every Little Helps' section on the Tesco website illustr ....1 Grocery packaging is roughly a quarter of all household waste,2 much of it plastic of which only about 7% is recycled in this country. Yet Tesco says
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• New Labour: Donors
  IT consultancy company, part of the Schlumberger Group ...n, is Chairman of Motherwell FC. In 1998 he made £42 million from selling Direct Holidays to Airtours.
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• Sodexho: Corporate Crimes
  ...atering company. 'Privatisation', and the lucrative contracts that go with it have turned Sodexho into a multinational giant. ...and generally disregarded health, well being and sustainable development. It was superseded in 2000, for local government, by the Best Value regime, whi
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• Exxon Mobil: Influence / Lobbying
  ...xxon spent $5.3 million and $5.2 million respectively on lobbying. In 1999 it was estimated that ExxonMobil spent $11,695,800 on lobbying.<ref>Leslie Way ...low are some of the groups with which ExxonMobil is affiliated or of which it is a member. This is not a comprehensive list.
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• Open Europe
  ...[[David Cameron|Cameron’s]] advisers. The think-tank is unusual in that it is directly supported by individual business leaders, and claims to refuse ...rling to campaign against euro’], “Independent”, 11 June 1998.</ref> It had the backing of senior anti-euro business chiefs (Sir [[Stanley Kalms]],
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• Four Communications
  ...t seven years, and expanded from London to Liverpool, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. It covers public relations, politics, design, branding, advertising, media pla ...dge Freehold Company]] | [[KTS Group]] | [[Leeds Property Ltd]] | [[Let It Direct]] | [[Linden Homes]] | [[Linea Homes]] | [[London & Central Investments]] |
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• Scotts: Influence / Lobbying
  ...pests, that left untreated can cause serious health and safety threats”. It also boasts of having “an excellent working relationship with the EPA”. ...erage and consumer product companies.[59] According to the group's website it “advances the interests of the food, beverage and consumer products indus
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• Freedom's Watch
  ...rge of their own,"] ''Marketplace''/PublicRadio.org, 22 August 2007.</ref> it began a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign on 22 August 2007 "to urge ...Jr.]] (donor, board member of [[Templeton Growth Fund]] and financier of [[Let Freedom Ring]]).
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• 10 Reasons Why We Don’t Need GM Foods
  ...d) — while profiting enormously from the resulting food crisis and using it as a PR opportunity to promote GM foods! ...sh GM crops back on to the public agenda. I understand why they’re doing it, but the danger is that if they’re making these claims about GM crops sol
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• Bjorn Lomborg
  ...u heard Dana Perino, the White House spokeswoman, when she was asked about it at a press conference… she said, well, there is a lot of hand waving, and ...rease tropical diseases. But I am not an expert in that and I am going to let Julie Gerberding testify in regards to that. There are many studies about
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• Peter Hain
  ...dered plans to restore "stop under suspicion powers" to the police (2007). It is claimed that he was one of the first to publicly denounce the plans<ref> ...lculated 'that Mr Hain's well-cultivated image as a Left-winger might make it easier for him to sell tough welfare reform plans' and that Brown banked 'o
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• CBI: eBusiness, Data Protection and ID Cards
  ...rom a wide range of different sectors including executives from telecoms, IT, media and service integrator suppliers; as well as Government policymakers *European Commission and Parliament through CBI Brussels, BUSINESSEUROPE and direct contact
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