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... Bartholomew has details of a meeting at the George Restaurant in east London in August attended by Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer and Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion at the invitation of ...
... were attending a weekend meeting at the invitation of the University of Dundee’s Hypertension Research Centre and Medicines Monitoring Unit after "positive feedback" from a similar gathering in January. ...
3. Bob-a-job Djanogly
(Blogs/Tamasin Cave)
... “Our lawyers place themselves at the centre of the industry through our lobbying and support of the sector as a whole.” These include Partner, Simon Witney, again described until recently as “heavily involved ...
... chairman of the biotech industry-financed lobby group CropGen goes unmentioned.[5] The guide similarly fails to mention the corporate interests of the John Innes Centre (JIC), where eight of its 28 contributors ...
5. The Rise and Fall of the Spin Doctor.
(Blogs/Nicholas Jones)
... against Peter Mandelson over his secret home loan, and Jo Moore’s infamous email in 2001 telling civil servants in the Department of Transport that the aftermath of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre ...
6. Brussels – insulated with cash
(Articles/European politics)
... staff (often ex-officials), rent offices, and maintain a presence at the centre of EU governance. This is an important structural advantage for those with the deepest pockets to invest in shaping policy ...
7. Jimmy's GM Food Fix
(Articles/GM Industry)
... Uganda and the John Innes Centre (JIC) - an institute described by Jimmy as “independent” even though it’s had tens of millions of pounds in funding out of the GM giants it’s jumped into bed with. Jimmy's ...
8. Things are not going the US’s way
(Articles/US Politics)
... all the world from one centre. … So what we have to do is, instead of unilateral actions, act all together, make common decisions and have consultations with the world. A new world order, if I can say ...
9. Fortress Britain
(Articles/Terror Spin)
... Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), reinvented themselves over night as ‘experts on al-Qaeda’. Gunaratna’s book Inside Al Qaeda became an instant best-seller, ...
... battle?Nazir-Ali is an advisor to the Social Affairs Unit's Centre for Social Cohesion, whose director Douglas Murray also has a piece in the magazine. In the past, Murray has argued that Europe "has ...
11. Bush slams anti-US 'propaganda'
(News/Propaganda)
... being disrupted whenever his motorcade moves, says the BBC's Christian Fraser in Rome. As Air Force One touched down, hundreds were gathering in the city centre in protest at the Bush administration ...
... to make this illuminating comment. In the 1950s his father, Irving Kristol, was at the centre of ‘liberal anti-totalitarianism’ as an editor of Encounter, the London-based magazine of the Congress ...
...  Tom Spencer of the European Centre for Public Affairs argues that "because the Commission is saying it is up to you whether to register, we won't be any clearer on the figure of how many, nor ...
14. Spinning Farmed Salmon (part 3 of 3)
(Articles/Food Industry)
... head, Sir John Krebs was a devotee of corporate science, being both an outspoken advocate of GM food and a critic of organic food.93  Krebs is also an advisor to the Science Media Centre, the corporate ...
15. Spinning Farmed Salmon (part 1 of 3)
(Articles/Food Industry)
...  23.  http://www.scottishsalmon.co.uk/mediacentre/releases/2004/080104.asp. Yet Webster is hardly independent of SQS as he is billed as working for ‘Scottish Quality Salmon’ on the SQS ...
... Group was an important centre for Godson’s Tory clique.  He initially worked as a leader writer on the Sunday Telegraph before he was imported to the daily paper by editor Charles Moore.  ...
The Guardian , 13/5/2008 There are concerns about the quality and impartiality of some academic 'terrorologists', says John Crace When two car bombs were detonated within hours in August 1998 at ...
18. The Tragedy of Afghan Aid
(Articles/International Politics)
... than $1000 per year. Often the contractors spend vast amounts of money on something that could be done much cheaper: For example, a road between the centre of Kabul and the international airport ...
...  — The EU Emission Trading Scheme is the world’s only compulsory carbon trading programe — Phase I commenced operation in January 2005 — A healthy London-centred market in carbon ...
Tom Griffin, 9 April 2008 Is the Cold War the best guide to how Britain should deal with Islam? That is what Charles Moore suggested in a speech to the Centre for Policy Studies last month: Think of ...
... – where member states are represented. In earlier drafts of the report by Finnish centre-right MEP Alexander Stubb outlining a series of rules for lobbyists, it had been suggested that such a register ...
... preacher Billy Graham. The charity runs Care Confidential, a pregnancy advice centre offering counselling for women who are considering abortion, and a sex education programme in secondary ...
... will gain power over almost all policies. Alex Stubb, a centre-right Finnish MEP, says the numbers of lobbyists pitching up at his office are growing regularly. He is pushing through legislation that would ...
24. Investigating the Investigators
(Articles/Media spin)
... investigative journalism that strengthens democracy then simply click on one of the following links and give your money to progressive alternative media instead of corporate media, for example, the Centre ...
EurActiv.com, 10/3/2008 Journalists are the least trusted when it comes to integrity and honesty, according to lobbyists surveyed for the European Centre for Public Affairs (ECPA). The poll also found ...
26. Crunch-time for lobbying
(Articles/Lobbying)
...  Commercial lobbyists, represented by organisations such as the European Public Affairs Consultancies Association (EPACA), the Society of European Affairs Professionals (SEAP) and the European Centre for ...
... of $10 a month." In fact, an information centre like Michigan State University's International Business Centre reckons that in 2006 GDP per head in Cuba was US$4000 while in Honduras and Nicaragua ...
... In one example, money had been sent to a day care centre, and in another example, to a service provider dealing with wood", Mr Bonde said in a statement. In another one, "a special Christmas ...
... scandals such as that centred on former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who received a six-year prison sentence for his part in a bribery case. The U.S. has a tougher compulsory register of lobbyists. ...
... resources can be as effective as rich multinational companies".  The European Centre for Public Affairs (ECPA), European Public Affairs Consultancies' Association (EPACA) and the Society ...
... story. In May 2006, when yet another of his alleged letters was handed out to reporters in the Combined Press Information Centre in Baghdad, finally it was widely regarded as suspect and ignored ...
... membership is somewhat murky. Even for Cardinals Centre-right Finnish MEP Alexander Stubb, in charge of drawing up a report on the issue, says that anyone who "comes to my office wanting to influence ...
33. Kenya: The Colonial Legacy Behind the Crisis
(Articles/International Politics)
... started Kenya was in a position most African leaders would envy. Its stunning beaches, game parks and wildlife were the centre of a billion-dollar tourism industry. Its economy was growing at 7 percent. ...
... including the Organization of American States, the European Union and the Carter Center ." The Carter Centre concluded "that the presidential election legitimately expressed the will of the people." ...
35. The Aarhus Convention
(Blogs/William Dinan)
... amongst Parties to remove barriers to justice, create a system of financial arrangements for NGOs seeking enforcement of the Convention and environmental laws, offering advice and litigation centres in ...
36. Infiltrating the waiting room
(News/Healthcare)
... pregnant women that 'it is important not to have more than 300mg of caffeine a day'. This level of consumption is in line with advice given by the Centre for Pregnancy Nutrition. The BCA upholds ...
... has weighed into the debate, urging a "culture of moderation," as his party tacks to the centre-left in advance of key regional elections in early 2008. But business leaders such as Ludwig Braun, ...
Michael Barker, November 22, 2007, GlobalResearch.ca “When President Bush used an October 17 [2007] White House press conference to threaten that the escalating US confrontation with Iran posed ...
... of cinemas, theatres, restaurants, hotels, sporting venues and commercial centres, and all hospitals, schools and places of worship  and this will include advice on training staff to be more vigilant ...
... centred on a 1996 meeting between representatives of the beer industry and European officials. Shortly after the meeting, the Commission abandoned an investigation into whether a UK law limiting the sale ...
... €7.9m ($11.2m) to organisations engaged in environmental protection in 2006, including WWF and the European Cyclists’ Federation. Ingeborg Graessle, a German centre-right MEP, last week held ...
... tanks, foundations, university programs, philanthropy, corruption, and interlocking elites. For example, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (a think tank) has among its partners the RAND Corporation ...
... empowerment to citizens of a country where every election has been ratified by respected international monitors, such as the Carter Centre. In the wake of the Church Commission inquiry in the ‘70s ...
... at the centre of a growing corruption scandal. Stevens, the longest standing Republican in the Senate, is now under investigation for his close ties to the oil industry, including the service company, ...
... 2001, after he signed up unquestioningly to American foreign policy in the wake of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre. Ending up being portrayed as George Bush’s poodle was bad enough; the ...
... to rephrase the ‘backlash’ argument via Gordon Crawford’s work for Centre for Development Studies at the University of Wales. Crawford argued that there is: ‘A dearth of critical ...
... their living from it doubt if it can be effective. John Stauber from the Centre for Media and Democracy in the U.S., which monitors the activities of the public relations industry, said that the biggest ...
48. Coincidence or Conspiracy?
(Blogs/Andy Rowell)
... was after a board member of the Science Media Centre asked me to substantiate claims I had made in a talk to the Royal Society on The Science of Global Warming. The main focus of my talk was the group ...
49. The New Economic Hitmen
(Reviews/Books)
... law? It is Dan Witt, who runs the International Tax and Investment Centre that has been instrumental in formulating Iraq’s highly controversial Oil Law, a draft of which was approved in February. ...
... .Very soon, this stain of disgrace [ ie Israel] will vanish from the centre of the Islamic world - and this is attainable.” [Dermot Meleady, Extract of a letter to the Irish Times, May 17th 2006] ...