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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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• James Jesus Angleton
  ...and Schuster, 1991, p.28</ref> The CIA's Tel Aviv station was not allowed direct contact with its counterparts in Arab capitals without going through Anglet ...oc was a potentially valuable source of intelligence, but also feared that it would be exploited by the Soviet Union to infiltrate the west.<ref name="Co
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• Iraq War 2003 Timeline
  ...on Suskind, "It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying, 'Go find me a way to do this.'" Bush also says the e ...It is brought to light by Ron Suskind in his book "The Price of Loyalty." "It talks about contractors around the world from, you know, 30-40 countries,"
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• John Mann
  ...nts. The campaigns and the issues that he has raised in Parliament are in direct response to concerns that have been raised by Bassetlaw residents. This ha ...n antisemitism], ''The Guardian'', 23 July 2019.</ref>On 8 September 2019, it was reported that Mann had been interviewed by police over a 'hate incident
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• Peter Hastie
  ...you're a big business it's unlikely that a minister would ever turn down a direct approach. ...e same pressure to speak directly to ministers as there is in Westminster. It's the committee members who will be influencing decisions here. And, of cou
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• Ed Husain
  ...dation.org/ed-husain.html Ed Husain Biography] - accessed 24/02/10 </ref>, it was stated that Ed Husain was a ‘campus recruiter’ for Hizb ut-Tahrir w ...dd that Husain is able to reproduce a conversation from the early 1990s in direct quotes. That the narrative of The Islamist links the discussion to post-7/7
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• Cello Plc
  ...uitment, Research marketing consulting, Data management and consulting and Direct and integrated communications delivery <ref>Cello Plc [http://www.cellogrou ...ew patients', and as the article states, 'once we have them in the net, we let as many of half of them go again'. The article claims that 'this is a worry
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• Overseas Information Department
  ...hich was shut down in 1978 by the then Foreign secretary [[David Owen]]). It was subsequently turned into the [[Information Department]] in the 1980s. ...ent passage of spies: the temptation to peek would have been overwhelming. It would all be a bit of a hoot, but for the caption to the picture - "Weldon:
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• Public Diplomacy Department
  :Towards Freedom (TF) are radio and television services broadcast in Arabic direct to the people of Iraq. The radio service started broadcasting a daily one-h ...on needs to be able to explain its activities, achievements and intentions direct to the people of Iraq. The mechanisms to do this didn't exist under Saddam.
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• British Broadcasting Corporation
  ...</ref> Founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd, it was subsequently granted a Royal Charter and was made a publicly funded cor ...sed bias against free-enterprise wealth-creators - and did something about it. <ref>Jeff Randall, ‘A liberal agenda set by patronising do-gooders’, S
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• Julia Cumberlege
  ...Cumberlege admits that the business was run from the House of Lords until "it took off".<ref>David Hencke and Rob Evans, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/poli ...lised that the business was taking off I took special measures to separate it from the House of Lords, setting up its own website and employing staff out
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• The Security Industry extract from The "Terrorism" Industry
  ...ry O'Sullivan, The "Terrorism" Industry''', 1989, Praeger, pages 117-147. It is reproduced with the permission of Ed Herman. ...antisubversive focus to include an international Red menace, against which it urgently demanded accelerated weapons acquisitions, and terrorism.
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• Immoral Maize: Extract from Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat by Andrew Rowell
  from '''''Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat''''' by Andrew Rowell Reprinted with permission Earthscan Ltd ...ist was wrong. For some reason, instead of the local maize being negative, it kept coming up positive. [2]
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• British Briefing
  ...ue asked readers 'to refrain from mentioning it, or its existence, or from direct quotation.' <ref>Richard Norton-Taylor and David Rose, 'PM adviser in smear ...rch Foundation]]. The letter read: '[[Ralph Harris]] and I are now able to let you know of our programme of research and education which we believe qualif
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• Street Science: David King on GM crops
  ...fe was a hotbed of anti-GM activism back in the 90s, when campaigners took direct action against GM crops... ...walked blind into a cafe like this before and met people out of the blue. It's the kind of challenge I think I enjoy. But I'll tell you afterwards.
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• James Straven (alias)
  ...ed his decision to restrict his real name in October 2018, only publishing it in February 2019.<ref>Sir John Mitting. [https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content ...rder to get into. Croydon sabs was more easy-going, everybody was welcome. It was a group of friends who would go to festivals together, to gigs and part
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• COP15 Issues Discussion Page
  I recommend looking at just British registered ones to narrow it down ...the summit? This is partly for us to direct our inquiries and also because it will help other activists to target these specific people with information/
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• United Kingdom Independence Party
  Since September 2017, it has been led by [[Henry Bolton]]. Previously [[Paul Nuttall]] was elected l ...regurgitated the unfounded claim to Scaramella who persuaded him to write it down.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,2246124,00.html Why a
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• Robert Cooper
  ...ose decision to support the war in Iraq was as deeply unpopular at home as it was admired in Washington. ...the opportunities, perhaps even the need for colonisation, is as great as it ever was in the nineteenth century. Those left out of the global economy ri
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• James Burnham
  ...of her concrete attributes."</ref> can be traced to a series of books but it is mainly his (1941) ''The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the ...Tobruk, they will infallibly capture Cairo; if the Russians are in Berlin, it will not be long before they are in London: and so on. This habit of mind l
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• Sense About Science
  The UK lobby group '''Sense About Science''' says it is Sense About Science states that it
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