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• Spies at Work, Chapter 6: The Economic League goes to War
  ...m for public education. In consequence it contributes letters and articles on economic questions to daily and weekly newspapers throughout the country." ..." and the Naval establishment was eager to find a explanation that did not point the finger at their own mismanagement of both the pay issue and the strike
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 8: The Wilson Years
  ...his ideas on foreign policy were far more radical. His 1953 book ''The War on World Poverty: An Appeal to the Conscience of Mankind'' was a genuinely rad ...rialist tub-thumping. The closely and brilliant argued thesis of the ''War on World Poverty'' laid out the moral and political case for world development
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 9: Spies at Work
  ...r those in the Labour Party who had egged him on. It was the major turning point in Wilson's career, and it created enduring problems that he never effectiv ...ters. But rather than backing off after this, Heath increased the pressure on Wilson in the House of Commons by demanding even more information about the
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• Spies at Work, Chapter 10: 'The Need for a Change of Direction'
  ...sure groups like the Economic League, which relied for most of its support on Conservatives who were unhappy with the direction of the Conservative Party ...eague's surviving members that it still had something to offer them, while on the other hand he had to rationalise the organisation to survive the econom
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• Advanta: Corporate Crimes
  ...small amounts of genetically modified material unapproved in the EU [47]. On April 17, Advanta Seeds UK told the UK Government that GM contaminated oils ...producer groups preceded this [50] and their detailed advice to ministers on the issue was not made publicly available, despite a pledge that this would
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• Green Jobs Strategy
  ...document " A partnership for a better Scotland" which consisted of a seven point action plan, and the [[BCSD-UK]]'s November 2003 general meeting to be host
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• Syngenta: Corporate Crimes
  ...ay take place, creating herbicide tolerant ‘super weeds’. This depends on the proximity of species with which the crop can successfully hybridise. * Knock-on effects on the food web by destroying non-target insects. Studies have shown that lace
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• ASDA Wal-Mart: Corporate Crimes
  Workers continue to 'remain on low incomes, have no union representation and in some cases are harshly tre ...07. Accessed 25th March 2009</ref>. In the report in ''The Scotsman'', War on Want's Simon McRae is quoted as saying:
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• Countryside Alliance
  ...ganise the July 1997 Countryside Rally.</ref> to oppose an anticipated ban on hunting with dogs under the New Labour government.<ref>The contents of this ...d have begun to be taken quite seriously by many as an authoritative voice on rural issues, even those with which they have little connection, for exampl
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• National Farmers' Union: Who does the NFU represent?
  ...NFU's parliamentary, land use and environment committees, and also served on the policy committee. ...s means that only farmers who are doing well enough to employ someone else on their farms are able to take up such positions.
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• National Farmers' Union: Examples of recent NFU Policies
  ...Ben Gill rejected a call for a vote to be taken at the NFU annual meeting on whether GM crops should be supported or banned presumably because he feared ...the introduction, found that the discussion was actually centred entirely on how to manage the introduction of commercial GM crops in the UK.
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• Procter & Gamble: Corporate Crimes
  ...st advertisers and was the first company advertising directly to consumers on a national scale. Most of P&G’s product lines are the premium brands that ...rketing tools…Marketing is a strategic activity and a discipline focused on the endgame of getting more consumers to buy your product more often so tha
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• Airey Neave Trust
  ...arch designed to have a practical impact 'to the greatest extent possible' on issues of 'tyranny and injustice'. Topics studied include slavery, torture, ...ularly in its preparatory stages. The second is a £50,000 two-year study on "Transnational Networks and the Implications for International Security". T
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• J Sainsbury Plc: Influence / Lobbying
  ...comfortably with Sainsburys' professed concern about the subject. For more on UNICE, see: http://www.corporateeurope.org/ebsummit/factsheet2.htm ...g with other local residents who just feel that it is an eyesore. For more on the school, see: www.corporatewatch.org.uk/news/said_business_school.html
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• Tesco Plc
  ...you-need-is-love-494556.html/ Calling Tesco: All You Need Is Love, Article On Tesco] ''The Independent'', Accessed 25th February 2008 </ref> ...supermarkets. Now these supermarkets take 75% of British shoppers spending on food in supermarkets. Tesco in particular has recorded huge growth, doublin
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• Tesco Plc: Influence / Lobbying
  ...e gold plating of EU directives. All of this undermines British businesses on the home front as they battle in global markets.' ''Sir Terry Leahy''{{ref| ...ore than the other supermarket chains. These included Terry Leahy, who sat on the Board of Trade's [[Competitiveness Advisory Group]] (although from the
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• Tesco Plc: Corporate Crimes
  ...entally friendly company it claims to be? The 'Every Little Helps' section on the Tesco website illustrates some of its efforts. ...d vegetables3 illustrates it isn't just EU marketing standards that insist on strict criteria for cosmetic appearance. The supermarkets all go one step f
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• Shriti Vadera
  ...n the partial privatisation of [[South African Telecom]]. She is an expert on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) deals. ==Gordon Brown's 'representative on earth'==
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• Rupert Murdoch
  ...strike collapsed in 1987, a major defeat for the organised working class. On the 5/12/2000 in a speech to a [[Labour Friends of Israel]] meeting, [[Pete ...Murdoch. Steltzer has been a regular visitor to [[Tony Blair]] and at one point was being paid as a consultant by Downing Street (Murdoch is known to have
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• New Labour: Donors
  ...only 26% of workers said they believed that management and employees were 'on the same side' (Joseph Rowntree Foundation study). In a country where 55% o ...er the Fairness at Work legislation, British law was 'the most restrictive on Trade Unions in the Western world'.
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