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Food lobby weighs in on obesity debate |
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Food Industry
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By Clare Matheson
BBC News Online business reporter
The UK food industry is throwing its weight behind a huge campaign to head off growing pressure for regulations to tackle the mounting obesity crisis.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3750127.stm |
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UK Govt wants voluntary solution to junk food advertising targeting children |
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Food Industry
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UK Government Seeks Voluntary Compromise on Junk Food Ads
Conscious that the spectre of a general election hovers just below the horizon, the beleaguered Blair administration is in no mood to antagonise Britain's food manufacturing multinationals by enforcing a ban on the advertising of junk foods to kids |
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US Politics
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Wall Street Firms Funnel Millions to Bush
Finance Sector Produces Surge of Cash to President Who Cut Taxes on Dividends, Gains
By Thomas B. Edsall and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, May 24, 2004; Page A04
At Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., a suggestion from chief executive E. Stanley O'Neal is not to be taken lightly. O'Neal eliminated 24,000 jobs, froze pay and steadily pushed out competitors for executive power, including colleagues who had championed his rise up the corporate ladder. "Ruthless," O'Neal has reportedly told colleagues, "isn't always bad."
So it came as no surprise that when O'Neal sent letters to senior executives at Merrill Lynch in early June asking them to contribute to President Bush's reelection campaign, the response was prompt and generous. Between June 12 and June 30 of last year, the Bush-Cheney campaign was inundated with 157 checks from Merrill Lynch executives and at least 20 from their spouses; 140 checks were for the maximum allowed by law: $2,000.
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Republicans Target Soft Money |
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US Politics
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GOP Creating Own '527' Groups
Unregulated Funds Can Be Raised
By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 25, 2004; Page A15
Top Republican operatives have launched an effort to compete with Democratic groups for large sums of unregulated presidential campaign funds by designating a group with close ties to the Bush administration to serve as the main conduit. |
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Commission right to ignore REACH snub |
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EU Politics
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"The apparent gulf between the US and Europe on chemicals policy reflects not deep transatlantic differences in social perceptions of the benefits and risks of chemicals, but rather the use of strikingly different political processes to generate policy."
European Voice, Vol. 10 No. 13 : 15 April 2004
From Joseph H. Guth |
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US REACH-bashing gets short shrift from Congress |
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EU Politics
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THE US government is under heavy criticism at home for its lobbying against the embattled EU chemicals' authorization plan, REACH.
By Roger Falk
European Voice, Vol. 10 No. 13 : 15 April 2004 |
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Analysis A precautionary tale |
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EU Politics
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The EU plans new regulations for scientific risk-taking, based on the principle of sustainable development. US big business is furious
Jeremy Rifkin
Wednesday May 12, 2004
The Guardian
Chances are that most people have never heard of "the precautionary principle". This relatively new term is the most radical idea for rethinking humanity's relationship to the natural world since the 18th-century European Enlightenment. Its potential impact is already being felt within the business community and the halls of government, with profound implications for all of us. |
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Dutch Companies In India Found Wanting In CSR |
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EU Politics
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A report commissioned by India Committee of the Netherlands says companies practise corporate social responsibility only very partially
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RAJKUMAR LEISHEMBA
?A report on the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by Dutch companies in India has come down heavily on these companies for not living up to their responsibility. The report commissioned by India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN) and jointly carried out by Consultancy and Research For Environmental Management (CREM) and Partners In Change (PIC), a non-governmental organisation, among others, says, ?Most (Dutch) multinationals do have an official corporate policy or code of conduct on the issue but hardly involve their Indian daughter company in their development. Neither do they monitor if the policy is implemented or not.?
Source The Financial Express India, 23 May 2004
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=59751
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Neocons target Liberal Media for Iraq Outcome |
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Iraq
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The Iraq war is shaping up to look like Vietnam in many ways. The latest example is to put the blame for the 'failure' in Iraq squarely on the shoulders of the liberals and the left.
from: Global Echo |
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A vile policy of persecution in an American archipelago of gulags |
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Iraq
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The well-publicised release of Iraqi detainees from Abu Ghraib prison yesterday was a late and vain attempt by the US military to stem the damage from the torrent of allegations about prisoner abuse.
by: Independent (UK) on: 22nd May, 04
Published on Global Echo |
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US counters bad publicity of Iraqi prisoner abuse through al- |
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US Government
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WASHINGTON : The scandal over the photos of US soldiers abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison has highlighted a recurring problem for the Bush administration - that American foreign policy has a bad reputation in the Middle East.
The pictures have helped to contribute to the image that Americans, or at least American officials, are only interested in humiliating Arabs.
To change that perception, the government is spending large sums of money.
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Covert Propaganda From Bush Administration Violates Federal Law |
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US Government
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5/20/2004 5:37:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Jerry Flanagan, 415-633-1320
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The non-partisan General Accounting Office (GAO) announced that the Bush Administration had violated federal law by failing to disclose the source of recent advertising about the new Medicare prescription drug law. The GAO also raised serious concerns over "notable omissions and weakness" in the materials and failures to disclose limitations in the law, according to the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights which is urging television and radio stations to counter the false advertising by disclosing three key facts about the law that could impact a senior's decision to enroll. |
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Food Industry
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Tuna Meltdown
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
A family doctor friend of ours was irate.
For the past two years, he's been pushing a simple message -- a healthy diet
combined with regular exercise helps prevent disease.
But he is up against a corporate army that undercuts this simple message
almost every day -- from drug reps pushing unnecessary or harmful drugs, to
junk food companies pushing a high-sugar high-fat diet, to the entire
entertainment industry that induces the population at large to sink into its
collective barco lounger.
Sometimes he gets angry. Sometimes he shrugs it off and moves on.
This week, he was angry.
"Look at this," he said. "Just look at this."
He was pointing to a publication that was sent to his office.
It is a glossy 243-page magazine titled "Family Doctor: Your Essential Guide
to Health and Wellbeing."
It was published by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). It was
sent to the offices of all 50,000 family doctors in the country, and the
idea was that the docs would put it in their waiting rooms -- to give
patients tips on how to stay healthy.
You open the "Essential Guide to Health and Wellbeing" and there, on page
two and three, is a glossy color ad from our junk food pusher of choice,
McDonald's, pushing chocolate milk, chocolate pudding, and apples -- to be
dipped in "a delicious caramel dip."
These are some of the healthy choices that McDonald's is pushing in a new ad
campaign to counter growing criticism, from doctors, patients and now
lawyers, that McD's -- with its fat-drenched french fries and double
cheeseburgers -- is fueling an obesity crisis that is threatening the lives
of millions.
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Freedom of Information Act to increase PFI transparency |
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British Politics
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Source: SMi Publishing (www.smipublishing.co.uk)
19/05/04
New act could affect over 100,000 public bodies
Companies in PFI and government outsourcing contracts may have to reveal more than they bargained for when the Freedom of Information Act comes into force next year. That was the warning made by Information Commissioner Richard Thomas as he briefed MPs in a special hearing of the constitutional affairs committee.
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Under Pressure: Lobbyists in 41 states reported spending more than $889 million |
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US Politics
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WASHINGTON, May 19, 2004
http://www.publicintegrity.org/hiredguns/report.aspx?aid=275&sid=300
Lobbyists in 41 states reported spending more than $889 million wining, dining and influencing state lawmakers in 2003, according to a new study by the Center for Public Integrity. That figure is up from the $720 million of lobbyist spending reported in 40 states in 2002.
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THE BUSH $$$ MACHINE: Analysis of Bush campaign backers and funders |
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US Politics
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THE BUSH MONEY MACHINE : Fundraising's Rewards
Pioneers Fill War Chest, Then Capitalize
By Thomas B. Edsall, Sarah Cohen and James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, May 16, 2004; Page A01
GREENSBORO, Ga. -- Joined by President Bush, Vice President Cheney and a host of celebrities, hundreds of wealthy Republicans gathered at the Ritz-Carlton Lodge here in the first weekend in April, not for a fundraiser but for a celebration of fundraisers. It was billed as an "appreciation weekend," and there was much to appreciate.
As Bush "Pioneers" who had raised at least $100,000 each for the president's reelection campaign, or "Rangers" who had raised $200,000 each, the men and women who shot skeet with Cheney, played golf with pros Ben Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller and laughed at the jokes of comedian Dennis Miller are the heart of the most successful political money operation in the nation's history. Since 1998, Bush has raised a record $296.3 million in campaign funds, giving him an overwhelming advantage in running against Vice President Al Gore and now Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.). At least a third of the total -- many sources believe more than half -- was raised by 631 people. |
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US Government
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WAKE UP! WAKE UP! IT'S YER AB-NORM-AL...
SchNEWS
Friday 14th May 2004, Issue 453
http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news453.htm
"It is easier and less costly to change the way people think about
reality than it is to change reality" Morris Wolfe, PR consultant.
Last month was the annual meeting of the UN Commission on Human
Rights where one of the hottest topics up for discussion was the
''UN Norms on the Responsibilities of Trans-national Corporations
and Other Business Enterprises with regard to Human Rights' (or
'Norms' for short). The Commission eventually decided to give the
Norms a 5-year mandate to develop and try them out further. |
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Bill would ban adverts to children |
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Food Industry
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A children's food bill to ban junk food ads was presented to parliament yesterday by Debra Shipley, Labour MP for Stourbridge.
Felicity Lawrence
Wednesday May 19, 2004
The Guardian
More @ http://media.guardian.co.uk/advertising/story/0,7492,1220054,00.html |
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PR Firm Hired by Tribes Gave $500,000 to Governors Group |
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US Politics
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Wasington Post
17 May 2004
A Senate committee investigating millions of dollars in fees paid to powerful Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and public relations executive Michael Scanlon also plans to examine $500,000 in contributions from Scanlon's firm to the Republican Governors Association.
The money was paid by Scanlon's firm, Capitol Campaign Strategies, to the RGA in the closing months of the 2002 election. But it was not disclosed until the association filed "amended" financial reports on April 27 of this year.
RGA officials said the failure to report the donation and thousands of dollars of other contributions was an accounting error. The two contributions to Capitol Campaign Strategies, which totaled $500,000, were the single largest contributions that went unreported. |
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Resistance to Big Oil & the Corporate Hijacking of the Arts |
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Climate Change
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Greenwash or Us: The 1st Annual Exhibition of Resistance to Big Oil & the Corporate Hijacking of 'the Arts', June 15th-21st 2004
We're asking you to rub your eyes, wipe away the mirage of 'sustainable development' and 'beyond petroleum', and create a true portrait of an oil company. It's time to strip away the greenwash. In fact it's time to reclaim the whole planet from these neoliberal robber barons and their bloody oil wars, climate chaos and massive pay hikes. We know there are better worlds out there, worlds that have nothing to do with profit or fossil fuels...or art markets for that matter.
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