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		<title>Does the USA want to make self-perpetuating permanent war the norm? And will Britain meekly follow suit?</title>
		<link>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7228</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCU</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate political nexus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vested interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Greenwald]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Permanent war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RV sent a lead to news surfacing in several activist websites, reinforced by Investment Watchdog, a site which focusses on the world&#8217;s economic affairs “First, the senate is debating an expansion of the already broad powers of the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) so the U.S. can essentially engage any area in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the corporate-political nexus paving the way for the factory farming?</title>
		<link>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7222</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCU</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admirable politician]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict of interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate political nexus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Political action]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1000-cow mega-dairy near Welshpool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alastair Driver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dairy Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dairy UK director general Jim Begg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Factory dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmers Guardian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farming Minister David Heath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Standards Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joyce Watson Member of the Welsh Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFU chief dairy adviser Robert Newbery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFU dairy board chairman Mansel Raymond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pig farm in Foston]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alastair Driver of the Farmers Guardian reported earlier this month that the Dairy Coalition – NFU, NFU Cymru, NFU Scotland, the Tenant Farmers Association, the Women’s Food and Farming Union and the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers &#8211; has asked Farming Minister David Heath to ‘call in’ the 15% of milk buyers failing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our special relation was lobbying politicians and agricultural officials for Monsanto and other similar corporations</title>
		<link>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7216</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 06:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCU</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advisors and consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil servants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict of interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate political nexus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DEFRA minister Owen Paterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Agricultural officials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American diplomats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food & Water Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monsanto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Target countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US State Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Surprise, surprise? The August 2011 WikiLeaks revelations showed that American diplomats had requested funding to send lobbyists for the biotech industry to hold talks with politicians and agricultural officials in &#8220;target countries&#8221; in areas like Africa and Latin America, where genetically-modified crops were not yet a mainstay, as well as some European countries that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government scientific advisor’s priority “ensuring that scientific knowledge translates to economic growth”</title>
		<link>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7209</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCU</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advisors and consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate political nexus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy undermined]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliamentary failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cambridge University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr Mark Walport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Monbiot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government's chief scientist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manchester University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oxford University]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an article to be published in the Guardian today, George Monbiot lists racism, nationalism and war as three of many hazards to which society are exposed if  ‘intellectuals’ side with soldiers or sellers. He refers to his castigation of the new chief scientist, Sir Mark Walport, featured here in April, for misinforming the public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soapbox 499 – for the 99%</title>
		<link>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7205</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 07:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCU</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advisors and consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict of interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate political nexus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Soapbox 499]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vested interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cambridge reader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephanie Bottrill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The captive state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The corporations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The real rulers of this country.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ‘captive state’ &#8211; a Britain organised under successive governments to suit the corporate few – grossly mistreats people like the late Stephanie Bottrill. A Cambridge reader writes: This suicide should shock and shame the government. Politicians on £64,000 per year have no idea how low-income people in this country have to live. How would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PCU: the ‘captive state’ &#8211; a Britain organised under successive governments to suit the corporate few – grossly mistreats people like the late Stephanie Bottrill</title>
		<link>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7194</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCU</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Admirable politician]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banking and finance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliamentary failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxpayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vested interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Declared directorships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public-spirited politicians]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The captive state]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following posts on Birmingham and Solihull websites, readers who have responded fall into two categories: Some – living on average or above average incomes have been quite unsympathetic: In her place I’d cut my coat according to my cloth Would losing £20 be such a big deal? These people are always whining. The son’s approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monbiot on corruption and short-termism</title>
		<link>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7186</link>
		<comments>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7186#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 07:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCU</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conflict of interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate political nexus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oxford University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The European Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via Dolorosa: corruption and short-termism are pushing us along the path of sorrows. The problem is simply stated: the power of the fossil fuel companies is too great. Among those who seek and obtain high office are people characterised by a complete absence of empathy or scruples, who will take money or instructions from any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICIJ &amp; Sachs: tax havens are not just gaps in the world’s financial system; they ARE the system!</title>
		<link>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7169</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 04:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCU</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advisors and consultants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banking and finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate political nexus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy undermined]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lobbying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxpayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vested interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Times A-List:]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Offshore money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax havens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Justice Network]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Investigative journalism on money laundering &#8211; with names! The editor of an Indian TV station contacted PCU to say: “Truly great journalism released in April but sadly under-reported by the media in all countries. Please share widely!!” He refers to news of the publication of the secret records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who decides what we eat – in USA, in India and, coming your way, in Britain?</title>
		<link>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7165</link>
		<comments>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7165#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCU</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict of interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate political nexus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Speed 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MEPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolving door]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reward for failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secret State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxpayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vested interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2004 Task Force on Agricultural Biotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Science & Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Devinder Sharma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM Crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HR 933 ‘Monsanto Protection Act’]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Environment & Forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tehelka]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Relevant to the previous post Valued contact Devinder Sharma asks this question in India, where the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has been ‘aggressively pushing’ for the spread of GM crops in the name of food security – just as the industry’s scientists do in Britain. We summarise his article about the ‘bull-dozing of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad decisions by government &#8211; 35: a short-sighted elitist, corporate friendly agricultural policy</title>
		<link>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7157</link>
		<comments>http://political-cleanup.org/?p=7157#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 17:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCU</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banking and finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict of interest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commodity markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cornish farmer Michael Hart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DEFRA minister Owen Paterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derivatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Devon farmer Pippa Woods (FFA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exporters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food speculation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free market politicians]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[International traders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kath Dalmeny (Sustain)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lancashire farmer Tom Rigby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Cruttwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Processors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resurgence Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transition TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Trade talks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[· Major processors and retailers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“All I can see is a monster opportunity,” said Mr Paterson, before heading to China. In the Financial Times, Louise Lucas describes DEFRA minister Owen Paterson’s steering of the latest attempts to ship food from Britain as a move “redolent of selling snow to Eskimos”. She added “Britain is gearing up to sell more cheese [...]]]></description>
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